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Abstinence is the rule I enforce, by precept and example. While men are men they'll drink strong liquor. But as long as they are not fool-men and brute-men, they can be trusted not to lap when they're on duty. Those I find untrustworthy I mark down, and they will be dealt with rigorously. You understand me, Brooker? You look as if you did. You've had a narrow squeak.
But it is only your own foolishness that you must tank if dere is dissension in de camp. De Gomorah says ve muz be vize, chocham, ve muz haf tact. See vat you haf done. You haf frighten avay de ortodox fool-men. Dey are oppressed, dey sweat but dey tink deir God make dem sweat. Why you tell dem, no? Vat mattairs?
But she showed me, too, her shroud her shroud! Just think of it, Uncle Moses! And that was horrible." "Pooh! That's nothin'. Lots of women has 'em laid by. Same's some fool-men has a coffin built an' kep' handy. As for me, I'm goin' to worry 'bout things only up till the day o' my death, an' not a minute beyond. But, I was tellin' of Verplanck Sturtevant, an' must finish the job.
Pinchas and little Sampson went down the stairs, quivering with noiseless laughter, which became boisterous when they reached the street. Pinchas was in high feather. "The fool-men!" he said, as he led the sub-editor into a public-house and regaled him on stout and sandwiches. "They believe any Narrischkeit. I and you are the only two sensible Jews in England.
In vain Pinchas reminded the President they would need Collectors to make house to house calls; three other members were chosen to trisect the Ghetto. All felt the incongruity of hanging money bags at the saddle-bow of Pegasus. Whereupon Pinchas re-lit his cigar and muttering that they were all fool-men betook himself unceremoniously without.
Den vat become of you? You are left vid von, two, tree ateists not enough to make Minyan. No, ve muz be chocham, ve muz take de men as ve find dem. God has made two classes of men vise-men and fool-men. Dere! is one vise-man to a million fool-men and he sits on deir head and dey support him.
"Dormer, for instance," said Bobby; "I think he comes under the head of fool-men. He mopes like a sick owl." "That 's where you make your mistake, my son. Dormer isn't a fool yet, but he's a dashed dirty soldier, and his room corporal makes fun of his socks before kit-inspection. Dormer, being two-thirds pure brute, goes into a corner and growls." "How do you know'?" said Bobby admiringly.
The committee-men are late; I wonder if there has been any fighting at the centres, where they have been addressing meetings." "Ah, dat is anoder point," said Pinchas. "Vy you no let me address meetings not de little ones in de street, but de great ones in de hall of de Club? Dere my vords vould rush like de moundain dorrents, sveeping avay de corruptions. But you let all dese fool-men talk.
'Dormer, for instance, said Bobby, 'I think he comes under the head of fool-men. He mopes like a sick owl. 'That's where you make your mistake, my son. Dormer isn't a fool yet, but he's a dashed dirty soldier, and his room corporal makes fun of his socks before kit-inspection. Dormer, being two-thirds pure brute, goes into a corner and growls. 'How do you know? said Bobby admiringly.
If dese fool-men vant to go to Shool and to fast on Yom Kippur, vat for you make a feast of pig and shock dem, so dey not believe in your socialism? Ven you vant to eat pig, you do it here, like ve do now, in private. In public, ve spit out ven ve see pig. Ah, you are a fool-man. I am a stadesman, a politician. I vill be de Machiavelli of de movement."
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