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In the mind of the playwright figs grow from thistles, and a silk purse perhaps a Fortunatus' purse may often be made from a sow's ear. The whole delicate texture of Ibsen's Doll's House was woven from a commonplace story of a woman who forged a cheque in order to redecorate her drawing-room.
But there are incidents which cannot be altered; as they would draw after them other alterations; and compel the artist, who had simply undertaken to "clean the works" of the watch, absolutely to put in a new "mainspring." 'E quovis ligno non fit Mercurius. This Roman proverb, Courteous Reader! is adequately rendered by a homely one of our own "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
"I always thought there was something special about him," said Hampstead; "otherwise I should hardly have liked him so well." "So did I. He always seemed to be, to me, just one of ourselves, you know. A fellow doesn't come out like that unless he's somebody. You Radicals may say what you please, but silk purses don't get made out of sow's ears.
'Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince thou hast power with God, and hast prevailed. So if we have God, who out of such a sow's ear made a silk purse, out of such a stone raised up a servant for Himself, we may be sure that His purpose in all discipline will be effected on us submissive, and we shall end where His ancient servant ended, and shall be in our turn princes with God.
We could have told them in the first place that the Word of God definitely explains the origin of man, and that anybody who tried to find out whether we were descended from monkeys was just about as wise as the man who tried to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." Carl was settled down in his pew, safe. President Wood was in his stride.
Society is threatened at its roots by the present high birth rate of the low grade and the low birth rate of the high grade. Environment, culture, can do much, but they cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Neither can heredity make a silk purse out of silk; without culture and the environmental influences, without social heredity, the silk remains crude and with no special value.
Jest now he's bluffed you all inter thinkin' him a wonder; but you wait an' he'll give himself away yet. He was ornery as a pup, an' he's ornery as a dog. You can't make a silk purse outen a sow's ear, an' I tell you straight you can't make a Sweepstakes Winner out o' Baldy o' Golconda, no matter what he done in this here measly Solomon hike." "Well, we'll see, Mart."
"You can only die once," Grim laughed after a quick glance at my face, "and we may save a hundred thousand people from the sword." But I suppose I wasn't cut out to be a willing martyr. It was a case of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and though I did go forward on that mad escapade it was fear that drove me fear of the Sikh's and Grim's contempt, and of my own self-loathing afterward.
"And this is our senator!" thought Ethel. "I wonder whether Honorius's hen was a Shanghai! Poor Flora is right it is poor work to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear! but, putting him into the place is one thing, taking him out another. I wish she would take advice; but I never knew her do that, except as a civil way of communicating her intentions. However, she is not quite what she was!
She spoke as though she was not wedded to any inflexible opinion concerning the proposition. "Well, Mrs. Reisen, as a man once said to me, 'neither can you make a sow's ear out of a silk purse." "Vell, to be cettaintly!" said the poor woman, drawing not the shadow of an inference; "how kin you?" "Mr. Richling tells me he will write to Mrs. Richling to prepare to come down in the fall."
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