It does not go to the devil; the clamor of this relentless prohibition law says single men like me can have no home, and the fore is not one drop may rightly draw. Though up and down with logic, I detest. And hedge the stubborn fact with rule and line. This truth I'll have done. Editors understand: I think just now of nothing; else save wine. For years I would not count. I've sidestepped strife. And tried to lead quiet, peaceful life; but all that's past; enough is quite enough; here goes to get myself a home, and wife. The Presidential Sift
Lots of folks who are talking now about loving their neighbors are just waiting for all opportunity to slam one of the neighbors with a brick.
John Thomas, most of Amelia's best-known celebrities of the second-following sort, attended all the sessions of the county court in the good old days when that tribunal convened once each month, giving the citizens an opportunity quickly to settle disputes in a judicial way and to swap horses in the more accepted manner. The question of equal rights had not come to the fore, and Sarah, his wife, remained at home. It was her custom in cold weather to prepare hot biscuits with steaming against the coming of her lord. John had  A long way to travel, and the warmth of the stuff to be secured in Dick Jones's har wouldn't always suffice. 