The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbors |
The whole book was rather crude & hasty but how far it really was less useful on that account I don't know. |
There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. |
There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. |
There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words |
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. |