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The government lands of our country were remote from the centers of capital and difficult to examine; the French national real estate was near these centers even in them and easy to examine. Our national real estate was unimproved and unproductive; theirs was improved and productive its average productiveness in market in ordinary times being from four to five per cent.
The shortest route to the heart of the average parson is through his pocket hit him there and you raise a howl that startles high Heaven.
Each second you hear, 'Miss Witton-Griffiths, forward, and 'Miss Witton-Griffiths, her heinness is waiting for you. In favor am I with the buyer." "Whisper to me your average takings per week," Simon craved. "Not repeat will I." After exaggerating her report, Annie said: "You are going now, then."
It is not well to be introspective, but everyone should get acquainted with himself, learning to know himself well enough to treat himself with due consideration. We are taught kindness to others. We need to be taught kindness to ourselves. The average person ought to be able to learn his normal food requirements within three or four months, and a shorter time will often suffice.
I read somewhere once that Voltaire I think it was Voltaire asked a man what he would do if, by pressing a button on his table, he would be enormously rich and at the same time would cause the death of a person away off at the other side of the earth, unknown to him, and probably no more worthy to live, and with no greater expectation of life or of happiness than the average sinful, short-lived human being.
A black servant in evening dress waited at the door and directed the guests to the dressing-rooms. The occasion was long memorable among the colored people of the city; not alone for the dress and display, but for the high average of intelligence and culture that distinguished the gathering as a whole.
Miss Willis's class comprised the children whose average age was twelve to thirteen those who had been in the school three years. There were both boys and girls, and they remained with her a year. She had begun with the youngest children, but promotion had presently established her in this position.
The principal chain of mountains runs, roughly speaking, from northeast to southwest, the average height being perhaps 1,000-1,500 metres, with higher peaks now and then. There are also ranges from east and west. The remainder is irregular hilly country, with low swampy coasts.
The average manager pays his debts and is quite as stable and upright in his dealings as one could desire, but what can be said of the man who take companies "on the road," after making all sorts of glowing promises, and finally elopes with the money-box, leaving his actors stranded in a strange city.
She saw that the comfortable average men of the office sooner or later, if they were but faithful and lived long enough, had opportunities, responsibility, forced upon them. No such force was used upon the comfortable average women! She endeavored to picture a future in which women, the ordinary, philoprogenitive, unambitious women, would have some way out besides being married off or killed off.
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