Sublime

Indeed, people speak sometimes about the ‘animal’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to animals, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

Cochepaille was no less uncouth than the accused and appeared still more stupid. He was one of those unfortunate men whom nature turns out as wild beasts and society finishes as convicts.

You had to pick your clients carefully. If they were crooked and didn’t pay, the whole year’s take was ruined. These guys, though, were too obviously greedy to be harmful. The people you need to be careful of are those who start talking about traditions and dharma and calling you beta and all that shit. They’re the ones you run from. I had bitter

She was advised to see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She bowed before the decision.

Horbury, the irritating influence of the Head's conversation and sherry apart, was by no means a bad fellow. He was for the moment savagely cruel, but then, most men are apt to be savagely cruel when they suffer from an inflamed liver and offensive superiors, more especially when there is an inferior, warranted defenceless, in their power.

Yesterday I caught a wasp and put him in a jar in the living room. Later I threw in a dead bee, and the wasp chewed it up. Last night I poured Canada Dry and Comet into the jar. The wasp rolled over on his back, kicked up his legs, and died in a matter of minutes. I felt really bad about it. Lots of people kill wasps, but I made it suffer. He was