127. It is easy to sugar to be sweet and to nitre to be salt.—Emerson.
128. Even Baloo, half smothered under the monkeys on the edge of the terrace, could not help chuckling as he heard the big Black Panther asking for help.—Kipling.
129. Even Shakespeare, who seems to come in after everybody has done his best with a “Let me take hold a minute and show you how to do it,” could not have bettered this (a line of Chaucer’s).—Lowell.
130. When I had the pleasure of staying at your father’s house, you told me, rather to my surprise, that it was impossible for you to go to balls and dinner-parties because you did not possess such a thing as a dress coat.—Hamerton.
131. If, in the future, an age of general well-being is to arrive, its children will turn, as all men who have the opportunity must, to what is best in human art, to the literature of Greece.—Lang.
132. I fear you will laugh when I tell you what I conceive to be about the most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent, and on a large scale; it is much stupidity.—Bagehot.
133. Look beneath the surface anywhere and you can find ugly things enough, especially if you have a taste for the revolting.—Stephen.
134. Tug as he would at the old man’s wrists, the hangman could not force him to unclinch his hands.—Dickens.
135. His dislike of books was instinctive, hearty, and uncompromising.—Boyesen.
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