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"A fortune makes a man stumble along if he's in the right road, makes him race along if he's in the wrong road," concluded Henrietta. "You must have been talking a great deal to young Hargrave lately," said Hiram shrewdly. She blushed. "That's true," she admitted, with a laugh. "But I'm not altogether parroting what he said. I do my own thinking." She rose.
Boone began presently to see that education is not the result of mere attendance in schools and the parroting of the classics in a few semesters in college. Without suspecting it, his varied business enterprises and his wide experience of men had grounded him as well in the ordinary forms of knowledge as nine in ten college men attain. "Education, after all, papa, is like a trade.
It is but mournful consolation to reflect that the chiefs of pretentious educational institutes elsewhere have proven by their parroting that they have as little conception of the social contract and true position of the pedagogue in "the scheme of things," as has our own 'varsity president.
As I said before to the wife, touching her unbelieving husband, so now I say to thee, Take heed of a parroting tongue: speak to them wisely, meekly, and humbly; do for them faithfully without repining; and bear, with all child-like modesty, their reproaches, their railing, and evil speaking. Watch fit opportunities to lay their condition before them.
I came back to be one of the many scores of energetic and ambitious young men who were parroting "Efficiency," stirring up people and more particularly stirring up themselves with the utmost vigor, and all the time within their secret hearts more than a little at a loss.... While I had been in South Africa circumstances had conspired to alter my prospects in life very greatly.
The little lad had observed the effect of the blessing on his mother in her moments of depression and many times his parroting had been the word in season. Now he returned to his play again, satisfied. "Would you mind if I called you mother?" Harry asked. "I shall be glad to have you do it if it gives you any comfort, Harry," she answered. She observed that there were tears in his eyes.
Why there's fifty such, out of sight and out of mind, ten times as long as him through entering in different names, re-shipping when the out'ard voyage is made, and what not a turning up to light every day about here, and no matter made of it. Ask my daughter. You could go on Poll Parroting enough with her, when I warn't come in: Poll Parrot a little with her on this pint.
In one of the Regionic capitals they wanted me to speak after Aristides, but I had nothing prepared; at the next I did get off a little speech in English, which he translated after me. Later he put it into Altrurian, and I memorized it, and made myself immensely popular by parroting it.
'And you, he added, turning to his daughter, as he filled the footless glass, 'if it warn't wasting good sherry wine on you, I'd chuck this at you, for Poll Parroting with this man.
Ain't you got nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a Poll Parroting all night? 'Let her alone, urged the man. 'She was only speaking to me. 'Let her alone too! retorted Mr Riderhood, eyeing him all over. 'Do you know she's my daughter? 'Yes. 'And don't you know that I won't have no Poll Parroting on the part of my daughter? No, nor yet that I won't take no Poll Parroting from no man?
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