Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose this thing is a libel and a damaging libel, but life is too short to chase libels...
...That bridge,' said I, exasperated beyond endurance, 'at sundown or in the twilight can be the most beautiful and the most romantic thing in the world...
...thing will stir first the Creightons' pity and then contempt Constitution) and near the Cathedral. In fact one sees them at the very doors of the Cathedral whining for alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...
...little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or touch not the Pierian spring...
...fish. Yet the mere fact that it is not fish affects me but little. I guess I must belong in Anatole France's category of those who "fool themselves to live". For I see no particular reason to be absolutely clear about the what and why of a thing like tripe. Be it fish, fowl, beast or bug it smells the same--cooking...