You have to understand...If you knew the effect you had on me, how often I think about you, the things I would do for you...I wouldn't stand a chance against you ever again. You would have taken everything from me," he goes on in a rush, like the words are burning him from within, like he has to get it out before the pain becomes overwhelming. "Not just a debating championship or some points for a test or a fancy award or a spot in a competition—but my whole heart. My pride. God, my sanity. It would all be over. You would annihilate me.
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all you had to say was “no.”
We’ve had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars and lunatics making a string of catastrophic desicions. This is plain fact. But who elected them? It was you! You who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your desicions for you! While I’ll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate. You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines. You could have stopped them. All you had to say was “No.” You have no spine. You have no pride. You are no longer an asset to the company.
That girl will learn love, though she do it
Against her will.'
Come to me now. Drive off this brutal
Distress. Accomplish what my pride
Demands. Come, please, and in this battle
Stand at my side.
That is my idea of good breading; and those persons who fancy themselves very important and never open their mouths, quite mistake the matter.
'Oh! Yes - I understand you perfectly.'
'I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.'