Sublime

Bole

Hippo,

for she “was now in a civilized country, where . . . people are judged of by their clothes.” Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

Pent in a barbed enclosure which contains, By way of compensation, grazing-land.

You could sit up as late as you pleased, and, whenever you got up, go abroad without any landlord or house-lord dogging you for rent. Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.

Whitman, in Leaves of Grass, warned against this self-defeating prejudice: “Of Equality—As if it harm’d me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possessed the same.”

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Aardvark and Rabbit were embarrassed for their friend’s embarrassment, but they understood completely.