“When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.” PeopleMindMeanPoorRichMastersCrowdsComplainingMannersGood ManDeclineDecayEmployersCivilityGood MannersServilityScrapingAbbreviations Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw.” PeopleIfsWarFightingOpinionCombinationGermanyAlliesTurkeysIncidentsShort TimeAustriaHungary Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.” PeopleMenWorldMayLastsStageHe ManGeniusNewsMen And WomenPoliceAnalysisBehaveVisibleCrowdedPsychologistMysticSensationalism Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
