Clarence Day, Jr.

“ I wonder why, when we are called on to help them, we are asked to give just from pity, instead of from admiration of their indomitable spirit and pluck. When I get those awful circulars of corpses strewn over the desert, and starved living skeletons glaring at me, it is too much ”

“ But if she is constantly bumping her head, you get so you don't mind at all; and, in order to arouse as much tenderness in you as the first time it happened, she might have to go so far—with some men—as to break both her legs. ”

“ She had to say it several times, however, before he seemed to hear her, and even then he received it only with low shrieks and groans in Armenian, and said that now he would have to give up college, because he could not bear such losses. All he had ever hoped of America, he said, was that he wouldn't lose too much money here, but he had found that no one cared how badly he ruined himself, nor did they understand rugs. My dear mother, half dismayed, half indignant, said she did not want the rug; she had only made him as offer because he asked it, and she would now like to go. ”

“ ONE of the curious points about the nature of man is that we do not respond to the same stimulus in the same way each time. Repeatedly apply any stimulus and we respond less and less. This is not always true of an irritation that gets on our nerves. ”

“ They could have kept out of trouble and led peaceful lives by submitting. But no, they have risked everything to free themselves; and after each slaughter the survivors have fled to the mountains and sturdily recovered from discouragement and planned new resistance. ”