The poorest reason for being straight is fear of being crooked.
We go into Society to rid ourselves of the dull monotony of an empty head.
Say not in thy ignorance, “If I had wealth I would do so or thus,” for no man knoweth himself sufficiently to foretell his actions under circumstances he hath not experienced.
THE EVOLUTION OF ALEXANDER
A certain man owned the name of Mike. While very young he had been brought from Mikeland, with a lot of other little Mikelanders, by a kind lady who made a very handsome living in a genteel kind of slave trade.
Immediately upon his arrival in America, Mike was rented by the kind lady to another equally kind lady, who needed cheap help.
Notwithstanding this inauspicious start in life, Mike made his way; he ran away from the kind lady who wanted cheap help and struggled up to manhood unaided by similar philanthropists.
There were washerwomen in those days; Mike married one, putting into the partnership, as offset to the washboard skill of his wife, a horse and cart that were not new.