" " But no sooner does one get firmly established in that particular phase of self - complacence than along comes Life, grinning like a gamin, and kicks over our pretty house of cardsshows us up to ourselves by revealing our pet, exclusive idiosyncrasies as simple infirmities all mortal flesh is heir to. " Yes : one presumes we all do think that. Insult was offered to the American flag by British cruisers, and the press of Great Britain insolently declared that the Americans " could not be kicked into a war. The little thing lay upon its face across her lap, paddling and kicking with its little bare arms and legs, as such little people are very apt to do, while being dressed. With a sharp kick of his right foot he succeeded in knocking the first German 's legs from beneath him and again the lad tried to raise his revolver to shoot the second German, who now advanced. Well, if you got any kick on us, please, sir, go get the Old Man. It would be impossible to describe the miserable sensations, both of body and mind, with which I dragged myself across the crowded pavement, not without curses and even kicks from the passers - by, and avoiding the shop from which I still heard those shrieks of devilish laughter, gathered myself up in the shelter of a little projection of a wall, where I was for the moment safe. Īs long as man and woman are held together by love, attraction, or " conditions " ( in its last analysis it is all the Law of Attraction, or God ) they are literally one, no matter how hard they kick against the oneness and neither man nor woman can alone be a model, any more than one side of a peach can be entirely ripe and sweet and the other side entirely hard and green. " Why do n't you kick to the Old Man, then ? " sneered Thrackles. I kicked at 'em as they would charge on my feet and llimbs. Ī quack who peddles a valuable remedy upon which he may have stumbled, and yet refuses to disclose its ingredients for the benefit of the whole medical fraternity, violates the esprit du corps of the profession, and is by general consent deemed a fit person to be kicked out of it. Wherefore he attracted a gentle kick in the way of a plague.
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