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Frederick O'Brien finds the South Seas purified and beautified by the Missionaries. Dorothy Parker hating Reformers. Frank Swinnerton contemplating, from the Tight Little Isle, the two classes of prigs developed by Prohibition; those who accept it and those who rebel. H. M. Tomlinson regarding, with not too great enthusiasm, the Perfect State of the Future. Charles Hanson Towne and the Law.
In practice what happens is that parents notice that boys brought up at home become mollycoddles, or prigs, or duffers, unable to take care of themselves. They see that boys should learn to rough it a little and to mix with children of their own age. This is natural enough.
Nobody but prigs would do that, and I am glad to say you are not a prig. But if you were turned in on two or three boys as Clara was on the Percival girls, a good thing to say would be, "Would you like to go in swimming?" or "How would you like to see us clean our fish?" or "I am going up to set snares for rabbits; how would you like to go?" Give them a piece of yourself.
Within the limits of Chicago are met the most diverse of men. On the one hand are the captains of industry, intent to amass a fortune at all costs; on the other are the sorry prigs who haunt Ibsen clubs and chatter of Browning. Miss Wyatt, with an exquisite irony, makes clear her preference.
'But all their Modern State Civilisation! 'Do you think there's any pity in that crew of Godless, Vivisecting Prigs? cried this last king of romance. 'Do you think, Pestovitch, they understand anything of a high ambition or a splendid dream? Do you think that our gallant and sublime adventure has any appeal to them?
They are, in general I mean the lower order divided into bucks and prigs; of which the first, though inconceivably ignorant, and sometimes indecent in their morals, yet I held them to be most tolerable, because they were unassuming, and had no other affectation but that of behaving themselves like gentlemen.
There may be mental prigs among them, but there are no moral prigs. In both England and America we suffer from a certain morbid ethical daintiness. There is a ripeness of moral fastidiousness that is often difficult to distinguish from rottenness.
Mind, I don't say anything against Herr Schurz myself what little I know about him is all in his favour that he's a thorn in the side of those odious prigs, the political economists. I've often noticed that when a man wants to dogmatise to his heart's content without fear of contradiction, he invariably calls himself a political economist.
Nature made you for that career which you fulfilled: you were from your birth to your dying a scoundrel; you COULDN'T have been anything else, however your lot was cast; and blessed it was that you were born among the prigs, for had you been of any other profession, alas! alas! what ills might you have done!
"I see you don't know my name," said Phoebe, with a soft little laugh. "It is Beecham. One never catches names at a party. I remembered yours because of a family in a novel that I used to admire very much in my girlish days " "Oh! I know," cried Janey, "the Daisy Chain. We are not a set of prigs like those people. We are not goody, whatever we are; we "
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