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Updated: May 10, 2025
We might have taken the case of insects visiting flowers for the sake of collecting pollen instead of nectar; and as pollen is formed for the sole purpose of fertilisation, its destruction appears to be a simple loss to the plant; yet if a little pollen were carried, at first occasionally and then habitually, by the pollen-devouring insects from flower to flower, and a cross thus effected, although nine-tenths of the pollen were destroyed it might still be a great gain to the plant to be thus robbed; and the individuals which produced more and more pollen, and had larger anthers, would be selected.
When a man has made a lucky speculation, or has just got a large order, he treats his friends to a bottle of champagne. I have not seen burgundy half a dozen times since I have been here. The old colonist finds claret thin and sour; but the younger generation are beginning to take to it, although there is no wine harder to obtain here than claret. Nine-tenths of what one buys is adulterated.
She had vistas of life she had not dreamed to be true misery she had thought confined to novels, to books like Les Misérables. It was all wonderful and strange and new. She was beginning to really know the life of the Greater Number the life of the Nine-Tenths and as she got used to the dust, the smells, and the squalor, she found daily all the richness of human nature.
Nine-tenths of her mother's conversation was concerned with the business of domesticity and withal Mrs. Lessways took the business more lightly than most! There was an impatient knock at the front door, rare phenomenon, but not unknown. Mrs. Lessways cried out thickly from the folds of her flannel petticoat: "Hilda, just see who that is, will you?... knocking like that! Florrie can't come."
Sylvia sat for a while in thought, and then asked: "What can be done about such a fact?" "The first thing to be done is to make sure that you understand it. Nine-tenths of the people who concern themselves with social questions don't, and so they waste their time in futilities.
And don't forget that nine-tenths of the coolies who went to help in the war in France were from Shantung!" he added with emphasis. This was a thing that I well knew, for I had, only a few weeks before this, seen two thousand coolies unloaded from the Empress of Asia at Tsingtao. No, Shantung is not an appendix of China, as many Americans suppose; but it is the very heart and soul of China.
They turned, walking home in silence, and as they went the phrase "nine-tenths," which Joe must have picked up in some book on socialism or some sociological study, kept haunting his mind. The new power released in him made his brain work like lightning creatively. Thoughts crowded, combinations sprung up; he began to actively dream and scheme. "I've got it!" he cried.
When illnesses are caused by disobedience to the perfect laws of Nature, a steady, careful obedience to these laws will bring us to a healthful state again. Nature is so wonderfully kind that if we go one-tenth of the way, she will help us the other nine-tenths.
You will find no rigid rules in these talks on diet, but you will find information that will enable you to select foods that will agree with you. People may well disagree on what to eat, for there are so many foods that a person could do without nine-tenths of them and still be well nourished. In fact, we consume too great a variety of food for our physical well-being.
Cheerfulness is an excellent working quality, imparting great elasticity to the character. As a bishop has said, "Temper is nine-tenths of Christianity;" so are cheerfulness and diligence nine-tenths of practical wisdom.
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