I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage. Frances Trollope More Quotes by Frances Trollope More Quotes From Frances Trollope I certainly do not lament the decadence of knight errantry, nor wish to exchange the protection of the laws for that of the doughtiest champion who ever set lance in rest; but I do, in truth, believe that this knightly sensitiveness of honorable feeling is the best antidote to the petty soul-degrading transactions of every-day life, and that the total want of it is one reason why this free-born race care so very little for the vulgar virtue called probity. Frances Trollope knights race believe It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs. Frances Trollope cities should-have people I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians.... Were it not for the churches,... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them. Frances Trollope church people religion The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal Frances Trollope perseverance scotch yankees
