"Am" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... fellow members!" she began airily, "I am glad to have this opportunity of raising a protest against an abuse which I consider is beginning to creep into our Guild, and which, unchecked, may be liable to lead to very serious results. You ...
— The Leader of the Lower School - A Tale of School Life • Angela Brazil
... terror to thieves, for he was able to spot them and mark them in such a way that they were known to be culprits. I am indebted to Mr. Jones, Rector of Bylchau, near Denbigh, for the three following stories, in which the very dread of being marked by Shon was sufficient to make the thieves ...
— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen
... Gentlemen—I am naturally interested in any effort made among Painters to prove that they are alive—but when I find, thrust in the van of your leaders, the body of my dead 'Arry, I know that putrefaction alone can result. When, following 'Arry, there comes ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler
... written one volume of lives divided into four books; in the fourth of these he says, that a wise man meddles with no business but his own, and is employed about his own affairs. His words are these: "For I am of opinion, that a prudent man shuns affairs, meddles little, and at the same time minds his own occasions; civil persons being both minders of their own affairs and meddlers with little else." He has ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... of the G.O.M. I am proud of it as a work of art, and as evidence that the volcano is ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley
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