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I am not one of your know-it-alls who figure the whole thing out from day to day, and then wonder why the fool generals didn't have sense enough to perform as expected." "I wish them countries over there would let me fix 'em out with generals," drawled Mr. Jones. "I could pick out fifteen or twenty men right here in this district that could show 'em in ten minutes just how to win the war.
Though I say it that shouldn't, some of his Majesty's ministers are d d rascals." I laughed. As I live, I never hoped to hear such words from my grandfather's lips. "He did not seek to convince, like so many of your hotheaded know-it-alls," said Mr. Carvel; "he leaves a man to convince himself. He has great parts, Richard, and few can stand before him." He paused.
Though I say it that shouldn't, some of his Majesty's ministers are d d rascals." I laughed. As I live, I never hoped to hear such words from my grandfather's lips. "He did not seek to convince, like so many of your hotheaded know-it-alls," said Mr. Carvel; "he leaves a man to convince himself. He has great parts, Richard, and few can stand before him." He paused.
Though I say it that shouldn't, some of his Majesty's ministers are d d rascals." I laughed. As I live, I never hoped to hear such words from my grandfather's lips. "He did not seek to convince, like so many of your hotheaded know-it-alls," said Mr. Carvel; "he leaves a man to convince himself. He has great parts, Richard, and few can stand before him." He paused.
"Oh, yes, he's one of those eastern know-it-alls who come out here occasionally to give us fellows a few points on mines.
Yet in July 1913 four boats were towed by a launch out to the Nevada side, near to Glenbrook. It appeared stormy before the party left, but they refused to be daunted or discouraged by the doleful prognostications of the "know-it-alls."
And sometimes he did partially understand him; this was one of the times. "Now now now," he said, hastily, "don't you get to frettin' yourself about your not amountin' to anything and all that. You've got a nice little trade of your own buildin' up here. What more do you want? We can't all be er Know-it-alls like Shakespeare, or or rich as Standard Oil Companies, can we?
"I say, Charley," said Philip, "I was ashamed to find my little self lost among these know-it-alls until I met Mrs. Maginnis. She said, 'Oh, Mr. Gouverneur, I am so glad to see somebody that I know. Who are all these people? So I pointed out the university president over there; and I told her that St.
He must have laughed in his sleeve many a time as he heard the know-it-alls predicting that the British nation was on the brink of perdition or announcing, in the most confidential of manners, the secret policies of his Christian Majesty, Louis XIV. of France.
I had no mind to enter into all the inextricable error with this Teuton, and it was he who continued: "Oh, these Boston philanthropists; oh, these know-it-alls! Why don't they stay home? Why do they come down here to worry us with their ignorance? See here, my friend, let me show you!"
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