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...Laurence Sterne, this proverb goes back to the French, 1594). Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off (1640). Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse (1670). Never say die (Dickens, 1837). Silence in the pig-market, and let the old sow have a grunt (1894). Three classes of clergy: Nimrods, ramrods, and fishing-rods...
...says Bruno Malitz, and we shudder at the thought. We are afraid that should our athletes set foot on Nazi land they will be contaminated by the doctrines which have set books on fire and inspired racial and religious riots. We don't want them to come home to sow the principles of hatred which the Nazis have made so peculiarly their own. Our athletes are ideal products of our American democracy. Let us keep them that...
Training his fire on world ills, Mr. Smith declared the depression was the result of God's stretching a chain across the toll road of life and claiming possession. People are then forced to stop and think, and they are dissatisfied with what money brings. "They that sow of the flesh shall reap of the flesh," was the evangelist's concluding volley...
...them, was generally considered backward. He never got out of the first form. At his last school, the master wanted to expel him, could not because the 17-year-old boy had not been at home or at school for five days. His first attempt to sow wild oats was frustrated. When he picked up a dancer at the Moulin-Rouge, she discovered he was Lucien Guitry's son, gave him a good talking-to, took him back to school, standing by to see that he did not sneak out again...
After this reminder that Adolf Hitler's policy is to refuse to sign the general peace accords the Great Powers have repeatedly poked at him, preferring to sow dissension if possible with separate treaties, Pierre Laval continued: "In my political life I have met many great men and eminent specialists, but now I believe in only two things: good sense and courage! If we do not have courage it is not only the institutions of the Republic, but France herself that is going to be destroyed...