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Every man and every race is capable of education up to a certain point, but not to the extent of being made from a sow's ear into a silk purse. "Some breeds do, and some breeds don't, Some breeds will, but this breed won't, I tried very often to see if it would, But it said it really couldn't, and I don't think it could."
Reisen," said the Doctor, outside the street door, "I hope you'll remember my request." "I'll tdo udt, Dtoctor," was the reply, so humbly spoken that he repented half his harshness. "I suppose you've often heard that 'you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear, haven't you?" he asked. "Yes; I pin right often heeard udt."
You heard, I s'pose, what Mrs White up and said to her once? You didn't? Well, she said, `You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and you'll never make them girls ladies, try all you will, says she. `Useless things you'll make 'em, fit for neither one station or t'other." "That there's plain speaking!" said Mrs Wishing admiringly.
When another traveler, meeting me, should say I had a winnowing-fan on my white shoulder, there in the ground he bade me fix my oar and make fit offerings to lord Neptune, a ram, a bull, and the sow's mate, a boar, and, turning homeward, to offer sacred hecatombs to the immortal gods who hold the open sky, all in the order due.
I knew he wanted me to be the same, after he got acquainted with them and saw how fine they were. "But you sure 'can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. That's as certain as shootin'! If I stay here I've got a mighty hard row to hoe and and I don't believe I've got the pluck to hoe it." Ann groaned, and shook her tousled black head.
He was bound many miles westward, right out to the sea-coast, to unearth a sow's ear which he had buried in the good times. It was now late autumn, and food was scarce. When you see one raven, says Father Brehm, you need only look round to discover a second. But you might have looked long enough where this wise old raven came flying; he was, and remained, alone.
"Ah!" nodded John, "but a sow's ear aren't a silk purse, Natty Bell, no, nor never can be." "True, John; but, arter all, a silk purse ain't much good if 't is empty it's the gold inside of it as counts." "But a silk purse is ever and always a silk purse empty or no, Natty Bell." "An' a man is always a man, John, which a gentleman often ain't."
No, he was not ready to turn prow to Spain, and he was not likely to bleed himself of men, now or for many days to come. All these who would lie in hammocks ashore must wait awhile, and even when they made their colony, that is not the way that colonies live and grow. Beltran said, "Some of you would like to do a little good, and some are for a sow's life!"
But that's just the way with these fellows. 'What do you mean? I asked again. 'What do I mean? The paintin' and writin' fellows. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, as I've often and often said to Cyril Aylwin; and by Jove, I'm right for once. I suppose I needn't ask you if you're going back to cane him.
We have talked it over a good deal, her uncle and myself, and her sweetheart and myself, after business; and I consider it is principally on account of her being unsettled. You must always recollect of Em'ly, said Mr. Omer, shaking his head gently, 'that she's a most extraordinary affectionate little thing. The proverb says, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."
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