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Symes replied abruptly, "and if I may say so if you will pardon me the name of Symes is a valuable asset to any enterprise prestige, you know, and all that." Prescott looked slightly mystified. "The Symes of Maine grandfather personal friend of Alexander Hamilton's father one-time Speaker of the House; naturally the name of Symes stands for something."
With regard to the French Academy, how great a service would they do to literature, to the language, and the nation, if, instead of publishing a set of compliments annually, they would give us new editions of the valuable works written in the age of Louis XIV., purged from the several errors of diction which are crept into them.
Now, then, we are at the beginning of our year; and well it is that, as our trial is now become shorter by another year, as another division of our lives has passed away, we should fix our eyes on that which makes every year so valuable, the Judgment, for which it ought to be a preparation.
But he wasn't going to be fool enough to chuck his chance away by sharing that information with any second person. A secret is far too valuable a lever in life to be carelessly flung aside by a man of ambition. And Montague Nevitt saw this secret in particular was doubly valuable to him.
ERNEST. But may it not be that the poet is the best judge of poetry, and the painter of painting? Each art must appeal primarily to the artist who works in it. His judgment will surely be the most valuable? GILBERT. The appeal of all art is simply to the artistic temperament. Art does not address herself to the specialist.
He thought that he might find something worth taking. On the wall, hanging from a nail, was a gold watch. It was too good a chance to be lost. It might or it might not be valuable, but at any rate it was worth something. So, while securing the bottle, Burns slyly possessed himself of the watch, which he slipped into his inside breast pocket. "Here is the bottle, sir," he said, meekly. "Thank you.
When all was ready, and some other valuable presents had been added to their stock by Captain Lyon, they proceeded to the northward, the women assisting to drag the sledge, for they had only one large dog and one puppy.
Before the votary of Minerva finally descended, Francois had artfully "yielded up" much valuable information to the gravely interested visitor. The attendant was the richer by a five-franc piece when he retired to vigorously fall upon the Major's hat and brush it in an anticipatory manner.
My friend showed me through his house, almost every apartment of which was lined from roof to floor with books, many of which were highly valuable. He told me that he possessed the best collection in Spain of the ancient literature of the country.
Most of them simply gibbered. I then gave up trying to get help from the outside, and resolved to rely on my own intelligence." He smiled triumphantly. "It is a theory of mine, Mr. Snyder, which I have found valuable that, in nine cases out of ten, remarkable things don't happen." "I don't quite follow you there," Mr. Snyder interrupted. "I will put it another way, if you like.
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