The Complete Harvard Classics - ALL 71 Volumes: The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction: The Famous Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature

by Charles William Eliot

and when the driver drove on with the two hoses, the sparrow again crept under the

Horses

There was one on a time

Once

ans

And

Once upon a time there was a child who was willful, and would not do at her mother wished.

As not at

But Two-eyes climbed up, and the golden apples did get out of her way, but

Did not get out of her way

wearing a dress make of the flax which she had thrown away.

Made of the flax

and though the would be able to get

Thought he would

bubble

Bauble?

No man is wise at all hours; it is therefore no wonder that a boy is not so.

The world may indeed be considered as a vast machine, in which the great wheels are originally set in motion by those which are very minute, and almost imperceptible to any but the strongest eyes.

And a man may be as easily starved in Leadenhall-market as in the deserts of Arabia.

If a person who prys into the characters of others, with no other design but to discover their faults, and to publish them to the world, deserves the title of a slanderer of the reputations of men, why should not a critic, who reads with the same malevolent view, be as properly stiled the slanderer of the reputation of books?

slander is a more cruel weapon than a sword, as the wounds which the former gives are always incurable.

Among my acquaintance, the silliest fellows are the worst husbands; and I will venture to assert, as a fact, that a man of sense rarely behaves very ill to a wife who deserves very well.”

Odsooks! should not I be a blockhead to lend my money to I know not who, because mayhap he may return it again? I am sure it is safe in my own bureau, and there I will keep it.”