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Even centuries ago intellectuals believed that education should not be indoctrination or to learn a practical skill, but exposure to important ideas that would help to guide an individual's perceptions. "Well, Mr. Quest, it's been a pleasure," she said as she shook his hand.
She was a little woman, with sharp small eyes, with a permanent colour in her face, and two short, crisp, grey curls at each side of her face; always well dressed, always in good health, and, as Lady Glencora believed, altogether incapable of fatigue.
He did not mind as long as he was sure, that the white men believed. He put that question to himself earnestly as he left, one of the last, when the proceedings came to a close. He was not certain. Still, if they believed only for a night, he would put Dain beyond their reach and feel safe himself.
This took the last stitch of starch from my manly bosom. Spiritless and spineless I bore all things, believed all things but hoped for nothing. In Which We Take a Vacation Diogenes finally convalesced to his former state of ruggedness and obstreperousness. He continued, however, to cling to Silvia and to call her "mudder."
Well, she told me to wish that I might succeed. And I did. And then I began to hope for it and to want it so much that gradually I believed I could. And as soon as I believed it myself, why, it began to come." "You wanted to so much that's why, I suppose." "Yes. You see, when you believe you can do a thing, you don't get discouraged when you fail at first.
I wanted somebody to look after me and keep me until my work began to sell and he kept bothers with other men away. And what would have happened if he hadn't come along? I would have spent my wretched little pittance, and then Yes, that was what decided me, thinking about that 'then. He was the only solution. And I believed in him then.
We must believe Madame Gerdy possessed of an amount of audacity and ability rarely to be met with in a woman. She must have been assisted, advised, compelled perhaps. Who have been her accomplices? She could never have managed this unaided; perhaps her husband himself." "Her husband!" interrupted the advocate, with a laugh. "Ah! you too have believed her a widow. Pshaw!
He had that fine intuition and grace of a gentleman of the highest order; and yet he was happy in the Lord. His happiness was the genuine joy of full salvation in his heart, born of a faith that believed all things were working together for his good.
He held his head high, and gazed before him too, as if intent on difficult and evasive thoughts. 'I could not have believed it of Helen, said Althea after a little pause. At this he started and looked round at her. 'Believed? What? What is that you say? His voice was sharp, as though she had struck him on the raw.
We asked if there really was any country beyond the mountains, and Kou-en answered wearily that he believed so. Either in this or in a previous life he had heard that people lived there who worshipped fire.
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