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...nigger. I wish he'd ask himself, then, how I must feel, and care about his own reply, and quit pushing, in any way, forever. But a man never thinks about those important things; until later, when he's too far away from the incident to beg my pardon and mean it. I would beg his pardon. That's what his fathers taught their niggers. That's the way mutually respectful, self-respecting men ought to act. But in America men just don't extend themselves to be human. It's the system again. It's why Negroes call each...
...Pardon me while I move the earth here," says Dave Garroway. The unhurried 'voice, with its familiar tone of deity, suggests that he could be taken literally. Actually, fingering a mobile of the solar system peering owlishly at the cameras, Garroway has come back to television-and television is the richer...
...your readers. It is a pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed: and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece.... In these plays almost all the characters are good: if they happen to have faults or foibles, the spectator is taught, not only to pardon, but to applaud them, in consideration of the goodness of their hearts so that folly, instead of being ridiculed, is commended, and the comedy aims at touching our passions without the power of being truly pathetic...
...Pardon me for staring,' said Milo, he had been staring for some time. 'But I've never seen half a child before...