“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop. What! no soap? So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.” LittlesGamesCuttingStreetsBearsMarriedHumorousGardenDiedRoundsPopsRanApplesShopsBootsHeelsPieButtonsLeafsSoapCabbageGunpowderBarbersApple Pie Author:Samuel Foote
“My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.” LittlesSelfSeemsHappensTechnologyMagicThings HappenCommandConsumersAnalysisClosestButtonsFired UpSelf Analysis Author:David Pogue
“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.” WorldLittlesSelfFactsMotherReadingSpaceBoysGoneToo MuchCollegeSonPrayingBlessingLettersFilledWideBackgroundsShirtsButtonsAttendingMaternityOld Letters Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)