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"I wonder if it can be true, as my friend Davis says, that a colored man must do twice as much and twice as well as a white man before he can hope for even equal chances with him? That white mediocrity demands black genius to cope with it?" "I am afraid your friend has philosophized the situation about right."
These men were prepared to work a very long time for very little reward, as no matter how small the rewards for the terribly exhausting labor, it were better than none at all, so they philosophized. That quiet persistence and unfailing patience form a national virtue among the Chinese the capacity to wait without complaint and to bear all with silent endurance.
"It is nice to get what one wants," philosophized a very happy Judith as she finished packing her suitcase. "I wonder if anything is nicer." Aunt Nell had sent her a little note the day before telling her to ask several of the girls to tea who were staying in school for the holidays.
He philosophized and philosophized well of the relations between man and his maker, of the necessity to human nature of belief in a God, of the disastrous consequences of having none, and such like things; but having such an interest is a very different thing from being in such relations with the father that the thought of him is an immediate and ever returning joy and strength.
They toiled along for another mile then Jimmy decided that it was rather a lonesome place; but philosophized that any place without either a crowd, or Mary Allen, would be lonesome, and then further cheered himself with the reflection that if he had Mary Allen with him he wouldn't miss the crowd, or that if he had a crowd he'd not for a moment miss Mary Allen, all of which made it rather a cheerful if paradoxical world.
March asked of the janitor. He answered, "No, ma'am; only two flights up," so winningly that she said, "Oh!" in courteous apology, and whispered to her husband, as she followed lightly up, "We'll take it, Basil, if it's like the rest." "If it's like him, you mean." "I don't wonder they wanted to own them," she hurriedly philosophized.
Bernard though imaged by a winter Coniston troubled Jethro not at all; the thing that stuck in his mind was that Napoleon for a considerable time, at least compelled men to do his bidding. Constitutions crumble before the Strong. Not that Jethro philosophized about constitutions.
I could imagine it to have been sent providentially to brush the torture of the land from my mind, and make me feel that men are trifles. What are their passions, then? The storm in the clouds even more short-lived than the clouds. I philosophized, but my anguish was great.
When it was so that we could not longer follow her failure and live, he began to talk of the absolute close of her career which the thing was, and how probably she had no conception that it was the end. He philosophized the mercifulness of the fact, and of the ignorance of most of us, when mortally sick or fatally wounded.
They always talk all the same whether they've any thing to say or not." "How much of life is wasted in enduring people for whom one does not care," philosophized Rangely, looking over the throng which filled to overflowing the Fentons' somewhat limited rooms. "Ah! There is Dr. Ashton. How do you do, Doctor?" "As well as could be expected," the Doctor answered, "in this antiquated assembly."
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