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Nevertheless, it may work positive harm, or at best, may lead to stagnation. The fixedness of habit tends to make us move in ruts unless we exert continuous effort to learn new things. If we permit ourselves to move in old grooves we cease to progress and become "old fogy." But the advantages of habit far outweigh its disadvantages.
"I told you he was an old fogy," said Ralph, as the door closed on his brother, adding with an oath, "I believe he wouldn't allow a fellow a bit of pleasure if he could help it." Max started, and looked at Ralph with troubled eyes. "I didn't think you would swear," he said. "If you do, I I can't be intimate with you, because my father won't allow it."
Is there a cooking theme in Siegfried to describe Mime's brewing? Lavignac and others, who have listed the Ring motive, have neglected to catalogue it, but it is mentioned by Old Fogy. Practically a whole act is taken up in Louise with the preparation for and consumption of a dinner. Scarpia eats in Tosca and the heroine kills him with a table knife.
His level smile seemed to have drawn his lips into a line, inflexible, a little cruel. The doctor grunted: "Instead of abolishing coroners we ought to double their salaries." The coroner made a long squeak as an indication of mirth. "You think unfriendly spooks did it. I've always believed you were an old fogy. Hanged if that doesn't sound modern."
Of course I'm proud of having bred these beeves, even if the lion's share of their value to-day goes to the boys who matured them. I must be an old fogy." "You are," smilingly said the senior member of the commission house. "Every up-to-date Texas cowman has a northern beef ranch.
"You can do better." "How is that?" "Become Franklin No. 3." "You don't catch me imitating any old fogy like that. As far as I know anything about him, he was a mean, stingy old curmudgeon!" exclaimed Clapp with irritation. "That's rather strong language, Clapp," said Mr. Anderson, looking up from his desk with a smile. "It doesn't correspond with the general estimate of Franklin's character."
Eileen laughed, calmly smoothing out her skirt over her slim ankles; then she closed the book, sat up, and looked happily at Selwyn. "Fogy and Bas-bleu," she repeated. "But it is fascinating, isn't it? even if my hair is across my ears and you sit that chair like a polo player! Nina, dearest, what is your mature opinion concerning the tomoya and the Buddhist cross?"
He had laughingly accused himself of being a rusty country doctor and old fogy who had not kept up with the times; but many a letter followed him home, with thanks for some helpful suggestion or advice as to the management of a troublesome case.
If Harvard football heroes and their "rooters," for example, wish to let their hair grow long and wear high turtle-necked red "sweaters," corduroy trousers and huge "frat" pins, I, for one, can see no grave objection, for "boys will be boys" and I am, I hope, no "old fogy" in such matters.
The garden of the days that are gone, wherein you should have planted kindness and consideration and thoughtfulness and manly courage to do right, will be grown up to weeds, that will blossom in your patches and in your rags and in your twisted, gnarly face that no one will love. "Go it, Bub! don't stop for your pa's sake; you know it all. Your pa is merely an old fogy.
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