You said it was wasting the taxes.

You want them taught to make a living, but not to live.

When I was a little boy this wasn't an ugly town; now it's hideous.

What's the use of being big just to be hideous?
I mean I don't think all this has meant really going ahead--it's just been getting bigger and dirtier and noisier.

Wasn't the whole country happier and in many ways wiser when it was smaller and cleaner and quieter and kinder?
I know you think I'm an utter fool, father, but, after all, though, aren't business and politics just the housekeeping part of life?
And wouldn't you despise a woman that not only made her housekeeping her ambition, but did it so noisily and dirtily that the whole neighborhood was in a continual turmoil over it?
And suppose she talked and thought about her housekeeping all the time, and was always having additions built to her house when she couldn't keep clean what she already had; and suppose, with it all, she made the house altogether unpeaceful and unlivable--" "Just one minute!" Sheridan interrupted, adding, with terrible courtesy, "If you will permit me?
Have you ever been right about anything ?" "I don't quite--" "I ask the simple question: Have you ever been right about anything whatever in the course of your life?
Have you ever been right upon any subject or question you've thought about and talked about?
Can you mention one single time when you were proved to be right ?" He was flourishing the bandaged hand as he spoke, but Bibbs said only, "If I've always been wrong before, surely there's more chance that I'm right about this.