Crabb
Cited as Crabb. — 6 quotations
Affront
Captious persons construe every innocent freedom into an affront. When people are in a state of animosity, they seek opportunities of offering each other insults. Intoxication or violent passion impels men to the commission of outrages.
Agriculturist
The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist.
Amuse
Whatever amuses serves to kill time, to lull the faculties, and to banish reflection. Whatever entertains usually awakens the understanding or gratifies the fancy. Whatever diverts is lively in its nature, and sometimes tumultuous in its effects.
Argue
Men of many words sometimes argue for the sake of talking; men of ready tongues frequently dispute for the sake of victory; men in public life often debate for the sake of opposing the ruling party, or from any other motive than the love of truth.
Art
Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength.
Hostility
He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend.