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Updated: June 12, 2025
Here the best criterion I know is a friend not only of abilities to judge, but with good-nature enough, like a prudent teacher with a young learner, to praise perhaps a little more than is exactly just, lest the thin-skinned animal fall into that most deplorable of all poetic diseases heart-breaking despondency of himself.
From the earliest geological times the vast interior of Asia has been the great mother of the world, the source from which the most important families of living things have come. Suppose, then, that we place in central Asia the primitive home of the thin-skinned, hairless human race with its adaptation to a highly variable climate with temperatures ranging from freezing to eighty degrees.
"Blowguns," Pedro answered. "They use them for small or thin-skinned game. See, the two blowgun men carry also short darts in their quivers, and small pouches of poison." "Uh-huh. They like their poison a dang sight better 'n I do. Say, are them guys goin' to march behind us? I don't want no poison needles slipped into my back, accidental or other ways."
I'm on my way over to the office to straighten up a few loose ends before I turn in. There's no rest for the weary, you know." "Don't let me keep you, then," she said dryly, as he lingered. "I'm going to bed." "You're not keeping me. I'm keeping myself." He quite understood her motive, but he was not thin-skinned, and he had learned that he had to make his opportunities with her.
"The lob-worm inquired, with a conceited wriggle, what could be the merits of a country, where gentlemanly, gliding, thin-skinned creatures like himself were unable to move about without personal annoyance? Whereupon the amiable 'SOMETHING' made no scruple of telling the lob-worm that his BETTERS found no fault with the place, and instanced its friend and admirer the Alderney cow.
And this chap's Hall? Well, my name's Miller. So now we know each other. Would you mind sitting down, you fellows?" Steve sank on to the bed and Tom retreated to the unoccupied chair, from where he viewed Miller with fascinated attention. "It was this way, you fellows," explained Miller. "I may be a bit thin-skinned, but I don't like being called a sneak-thief.
And Jude said he also thought they were both too thin-skinned that they ought never to have been born much less have come together for the most preposterous of all joint ventures for THEM matrimony. His betrothed shuddered; and asked him earnestly if he indeed felt that they ought not to go in cold blood and sign that life-undertaking again?
I remember laughing very heartily at Prague six years ago, on learning that some thin-skinned ladies, on reading my flight from The Leads, which was published at that date, took great offence at the above account, which they thought I should have done well to leave out.
"Ask the earthquakes, and the sun. There's a hundred and thirty degrees of heat in some of these valleys, abysses, rather, three or four hundred feet below sea-level. The earth is very thin-skinned in this region, too, and whatever water wasn't evaporated from above would be likely to come to grief underneath."
Public life to him is essential; without it he would be incomplete; and yet I sigh to think that whatever success he may achieve in it will be attended with proportionate pain. Calumny goes side by side with fame, and courting fame as a man, he is as thin-skinned to calumny as a woman.
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