“The portrait painter... If he insults his sitters his occupation is gone. Whether he paints the should instead of the features, or the latter with all its natural blemishes, he is as presumptuous as if he shouted, 'What a face. Hide it.' which would never do, although it is analogous to what landscape painters are doing every day.” IfsShouldFacesNaturalGonePaintPainterLandscapeFeaturesInsultLatterOccupationPortraitsPortraiturePresumptuous Author:Walter J. Phillips
“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.” WorldMayLongDoeHas BeensGivenNaturalDangerPeriodsFindingsEmploymentOccupationRetirementRetiringIndispensableAccustomedGiven UpCalculatingNew Business Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.” WellsLawYoungGirlOpportunitySocialNaturalPleasurePowerSupportGreaterConditionsHonestSafeAverageSeekingProtectionEnjoymentOccupationExposedTrafficWomanhoodProstitutionAbolishLivelihoodSeducingLiving WageGreater PowerHarpies Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
“Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.” NaturalChanceIncreaseOccupationCentsVocationEightyNursing Author:Gertrude Atherton
“Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.” MenLoveNaturalLove IsHe ManOccupationLeisureIdleness Author:Charles Baudelaire
“As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.” KnowsRealValuesInterestNaturalMankindEsteemEnlightenedOccupationAgricultureDestined Author:Edmund Burke