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It is all very well to say that men and women had their choice whether they would reach the safe harbor or not. "Go to it grandam, child; Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will Give it a plum, a cherry and a fig." We know what the child will take. So which course we shall take depends very much on the way the choice is presented to us, and on what the chooser is by nature.
She answered him blithely. The Countess laid her delicate fingers upon his arm, and held up her skirts till he could see her shapely feet with diamond buckles carefully feeling for each stair. "My friend," she exclaimed, "what ill taste you have shown. You are abominably lodged." "I am not a chooser," he answered; "but at least here I can pay my way." She laughed at him. "Bourgeois." "Maybe.
Moreover, it so happens that you have it in your power to serve me that is to say, if you are not too proud to accept the work I have it in my power to offer." "A beggar must not be a chooser," said Aspel, with a light laugh. "Well, then, what say you to keeping a shop?" "Keeping a shop!" repeated Aspel in surprise.
but sometimes a noble sentiment is simply and emphatically expressed "Non genus virum ornat, generi vir fortis loco." He was a careful chooser of words, e.g. "Tu pertinaciam esse, Antiloche, hanc praedicas, Ego pervicaciam aio et ea me uti volo: Haec fortis sequitur, illam indocti possident.... Nam pervicacem dici me esse et vincere Perfacile patior, pertinaciam nil moror."
All this needs learning by the old, and explaining to the young, for otherwise life will be one-sided, and when the day comes, as come it must to those who think, when a choice must be made, and there seems no alternative to following literally in Christ's footsteps and turning the back on much of the beauty and the thrill of the world, bewilderment will seize the chooser and at the best he will dedicate himself to a joyless and unattractive puritanism, or surrender himself to a rudderless voyage across the ocean of life.
And were I the chooser, a dream of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing. For God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person more than the restraint of ten vicious.
From the answers of 1,068 boys and 1,268 girls from seven to sixteen on the kind of chum they liked best, it appears that with the teens children are more anxious for chums that can keep secrets and dress neatly, and there is an increased number who are liked for qualities that supplement rather than duplicate those of the chooser.
"Well, he can have my experience free of charge. A beggar can't be a chooser, you know," said Brewster, bitterly. His color was gradually coming back. "What do they know about the secretary?" he asked, suddenly, intent and alive. "He was a new one, I understand, who came to Jones less than a year ago. Jones is said to have had implicit faith in him," said Ripley.
There are two just reasons for the choice any way of life: the first is inbred taste in the chooser; the second some high utility in the industry selected. There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbour is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Her husband leaned over her shoulder and studied it, too. He was mollified and won by the big, gentle eyes and that bee-stung upper lip. He grumbled: "Well, you're a good chooser for looks, anyway. Sweet little thing." Mrs. Dyckman examined the face more knowingly. She saw in those big, innocent eyes a serene selfishness and a kind of sweet ruthlessness.
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