"Knock-knees" Quotes from Famous Books
... appreciated what a truly democratic nation the United States was until I beheld it naked, that is, until I beheld a number of her sons in that condition. Nakedness is the most democratic of all institutions. Knock-knees, warts and chilblains, bowlegs, boils and bay-windows are respecters of no caste or creed, but visit us all alike. These profound reflections came to me as I stood with a large gathering of my fellow creatures in the ... — Biltmore Oswald - The Diary of a Hapless Recruit • J. Thorne Smith, Jr. |