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He was lodging with Louis Charron, a small farmer and kinsman of Jean Jacques, who sold whisky "white whisky" without a license. It was a Charron family habit to sell liquor illegally, and Louis pursued the career with all an amateur's enthusiasm.
She would simply have dawdled along, twaddling about "art" and seriousness and careers and sacrifice, content with the amateur's methods and the amateur's results and deluding herself that she was making progress. Now It was as different as public school from private school public school where the mind is rudely stimulated, private school where it is sedulously mollycoddled.
Honor to Whom Honor is Due A Class of Men Not Always Thoroughly Appreciated at their Worth An Amateur's Ride on a Flying Locomotive From Twelve Miles an Hour to Six Times that Speed The Signal Tower and the Men who Work in it Stealing a Train A Race with Steam Stones about Bewitched Locomotives and Providential Escapes.
"You'd think you never had a rod in your hand before," Ezram commented in mock disgust. "Such hollerin' and whoopin' I never heard." Ben grinned widely. "That's fishing the sport that keeps a man an amateur all his days with an amateur's delight." His vivid smile quivered at his lips and was still. "That's why I love the North; it can never, never grow old.
It'll break the East Coast Co. if he fails, and" his voice became oddly intense "and I tell you again that it can't be done!" Then Allison became aware of Caleb's mild astonishment at his vehemence. "An amateur's opinion, of course, Cal," he laughed, "which is strictly entre nous. But, win or lose, this man O'Mara will be a valuable man to have around after the thing is decided."
One can't study the masters too much I mean, from the amateur's view-point; in the case of an artist it depends on the receptivity of his temperament. Velasquez didn't like Raphael, and it was Boucher who warned Fragonard, when he went to Rome, not to take the Italian painters too seriously. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it sometimes stifles individuality.
He took this as it came, having been through it before. The dilettante amateur's dislike of the old pro. The amateur in command who knew full well he was less capable than many of those below him in rank. "Of course, captain," Balt Haer flicked his swagger stick against his leg. "But to the point. Your squadron is to be deployed as scouts under my overall command.
He was lodging with Louis Charron, a small farmer and kinsman of Jean Jacques, who sold whisky "white whisky" without a license. It was a Charron family habit to sell liquor illegally, and Louis pursued the career with all an amateur's enthusiasm.
The dying gladiator listened with intent interest but keen, professional criticism to the combats of the novel. The reader had got to the point where the young amateur fights the brutal Berks. Berks is winded, but holds his adversary off with a stiff left arm. The amateur's second in the story, an old prize-fighter, shouts some advice to him as to how to deal with the situation. "That's right.
I had been so definitely relegated to the position of outsider that to remain to witness the unveiling of the great mystery seemed indecently intrusive. Let it be granted, then, that I ought to have got up with stately grace and gone away. Only, I did nothing of the sort. In spite of my exclusion from all its material benefits, I had an amateur's appreciation of that map.
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