短篇小说 | After-Dinner Speech
MR. CHAIRMAN AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: I thank you for the compliment which has just been tendered me, and to show my appreciation of it I will not afflict you with many words.
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伊索寓言 | The Dog the Cock and the Fox
Those who try to deceive may expect to be paid in their own coin.
短篇小说 | A Fine Old Man
John Wagner, the oldest man in Buffalo--one hundred and four years old --recently walked a mile and a half in two weeks.
伊索寓言 | The Dogs and the Hides
Do not try to do impossible things.
短篇小说 | A Fashion Item
At General G----'s reception the other night, the most fashionably dressed lady was Mrs. G. C. She wore a pink satin dress, plain in front but with a good deal of rake to it--to the train, I mean; it was said to be two or three yards long.
伊索寓言 | The Dogs and the Fox
It is easy and also contemptible to kick a man that is down.
短篇小说 | A Fable
Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror. He said, "This doubles the distance and softens it, and it is twice as lovely as it was before."
伊索寓言 | The Dog in the Manger
Do not grudge others what you cannot enjoy yourself.
英语演讲 | John F. Kennedy: Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
Reverend Meza, Reverend Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to state my views.
短篇小说 | A Entertaining Article
I take the following paragraph from an article in the Boston ADVERTISER:
伊索寓言 | The Dog and the Oyster
Act in haste and repent at leisure—and often in pain.
英语演讲 | Theodore Roosevelt: The Man with the Muck-rake
Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of wooded wilderness here beside the Potomac. We now find it necessary to provide by great additional buildings for the business of the government.
