My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.