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Updated: May 26, 2025
All my life I've been trying to see what I could get. I set out to make everything and everybody pay me, and I never got anything but chaff; money and jewels and applause all chaff. The only happiness is giving, and I want to give, give, give to you. That's what I been longing to do ever since I loved you, and all I could do was to call you names a quitter and a shirker." She wept afresh.
The truth is, you do not really believe that you cannot alter yourself. What is the matter with you is just what is the matter with me sheer idleness. You hate getting up in the morning, and to excuse your inexcusable indolence you talk big about Fate. Just as 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, so fatalism is the last refuge of a shirker. But you deceive no one, least of all yourself.
The labor involved in such work was very great, but Washington was no shirker. He was always up before sunrise, both in winter and summer, and seems to have been so constituted that he was most contented when he had something to do.
"It's the only way out. Take it like a man, and you'll win through! Shirk it and well, sonny, no shirker ever yet got anything worth having out of life. You know that as well as I do." Piers straightened himself with a brief laugh. "Yes, I know that much. But I sometimes ask myself if I'm any better than a shirker. Life is such a beastly farce so far as I am concerned. I never do anything.
Perhaps I am selfish a shirker and there are times when the old call to get back where I know that the need is greatest comes like a clarion. But for myself, the disaster which once seemed like a curse has turned out to be a blessing, as is so often the case. I have learned a great lesson, doctor." "What lesson?" queried Rose. "God's," responded the minister, quietly.
They were exasperated with him for being a half-hearted shirker: he focussed on them his hatred of the whole thing; he would have liked to take a signal revenge for the abhorrent opportunity they had put in his way. Trust a boat on the high seas to bring out the Irrational that lurks at the bottom of every thought, sentiment, sensation, emotion.
He could turn the evidence over to the Brotherhood once his contract was over, and better and more capable people than he could settle the Lani legal status. But the inner voice that had called him bestial now called him shirker, coward, and slacker. And this, too, could not be borne. The case of the Lani would have to be pursued as vigorously as he could do it.
Before he left the office that afternoon Graham had before him a typewritten memorandum from his secretary covering the case of David Sanders. The grizzled railroad builder fixed Sanders with an eye that had read into the soul of many a shirker and many a dishonest schemer. "How long have you been with the Jackpot Company?" "Not long. Only a few days." "How much stock do you own?"
"I don't see what Trampas wants him for," said Scipio. "Oh, a handy tool some day." "Not very handy," said Scipio. "Well, Trampas is aimin' to train him. Yu' see, supposin' yu' were figuring to turn professional thief yu'd be lookin' around for a nice young trustful accomplice to take all the punishment and let you take the rest." "No such thing!" cried Scipio, angrily. "I'm no shirker."
Do you think you're having a day in the country?" asked Coupeau, in a rage. "You're like Monsieur Beranger, composing verses, perhaps! Will you give me those irons! Did any one ever see such a thing! Strolling about on the house-tops! Why not bring your sweetheart at once, and tell her of your love? Will you give me those irons? You confounded little shirker!"
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