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"Again, it is absurd to suspect one election candidate of killing another. It isn't done and one very good reason is, that if the criminal should be discovered, he has small chance for the election he coveted. And there is always a chance and a strong one that 'murder will out! So, personally, I admit I don't subscribe entirely to the cut-and-dried program of my esteemed colleagues.
At any other time she would have been humiliated and astonished to hear herself make such cut-and-dried remarks, such little trite observations.
They ain't no mortal good whatever, guv'nor, when it comes to horse sense! 'Cause why? 'Tain't their fault it's the system. They can't do nothing, start nothing, suggest nothing! they can only do things in the official, cut-and-dried, red-tape way, Guv'nor you and me can do better." "Well?" asked Copplestone. "Listen!" continued Spurge.
Susan had not been so apt a pupil of Fanny Warham's as was Ruth, because Susan had not Ruth's nature of the old-maidish, cut-and-dried conventional.
At the call for the "Noes" a bellow of voices shook the hall. The convention had given this stranger permission to speak by that refusal to subscribe to the cut-and-dried plans. Colonel Dodd was no longer smug. He scowled ferociously. "Gentlemen of the convention, I am grateful," cried Walker Farr. "And I will not abuse your patience." "Platform take the platform!" called many of the delegates.
The problems that arise are of well-nigh inconceivable difficulty. They cannot be solved by the foolish sentimentality of stay-at-home people, with little patent recipes, and those cut-and-dried theories of the political nursery which have such limited applicability amid the crash of elemental forces.
He did not wish to force anything. He was following the leading of the Spirit. If God really meant this work for him, He would show him. Courtland's preaching was not of the usual cut-and-dried order of the young theologue. His theology had been studied to help him to understand his God and his Bible, not to give him a set of rules for preaching.
The second book, "Under the Greenwood Tree," is a blithe, bright woodland comedy and it would have been convenient for a cut-and-dried theory of Hardy's growth from lightness to gravity, had it come first. It is, rather, a happy interlude, hardly representative of his main interest, save for its clear-cut characterizations of country life and its idyllic flavor.
With Sieyès on the Directoire there comes into existence an ill-defined, vague conspiracy, all the more dangerous in that it was far more a general push of a great number of men towards a new set of conditions, than a cut-and-dried plot involving precise action and precise results at a given moment.
But we have so few titles that a man who ought to be doing something better than he is doing, very soon gets to doing it he is not restrained by the fact that there is no position ahead of him "open" for there are no "positions." We have no cut-and-dried places our best men make their places.
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