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... everything but what they're got to get their bread by . " What is education after all ? It is not learning any particular thing , not even the Latin grammar ; all are agreed on this — it is acquiring the habit of industry , learning ...
... everything but what they're got to get their bread by . " What is education after all ? It is not learning any particular thing , not even the Latin grammar ; all are agreed on this — it is acquiring the habit of industry , learning ...
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... everything she provides him with . Girls are being driven towards the same educa- tional cul - de - sac . The Greeks valued women as prizes ( beyond tripods or swine , it will be sneered ) ; they valued them for their beauty , and for ...
... everything she provides him with . Girls are being driven towards the same educa- tional cul - de - sac . The Greeks valued women as prizes ( beyond tripods or swine , it will be sneered ) ; they valued them for their beauty , and for ...
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... everything besides . For money men will give up all else , and sell their lives : and what does it represent ? At best only purchase at second - hand ; the produce of the market , not one's own productions , not the things in whose ...
... everything besides . For money men will give up all else , and sell their lives : and what does it represent ? At best only purchase at second - hand ; the produce of the market , not one's own productions , not the things in whose ...
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... everything . Lady Marian Alford , in building this house , has followed the spirit rather than the letter of the Italian style in domestic architecture . She is not afraid of light ; her windows are large , and constructed to admit ...
... everything . Lady Marian Alford , in building this house , has followed the spirit rather than the letter of the Italian style in domestic architecture . She is not afraid of light ; her windows are large , and constructed to admit ...
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... everything paid for him until he is a full - fledged artist , an expert ; when he must be set up in life with a cargo of pretty things in a tasteful studio , to run in debt while he waits till he has done something to make the world ...
... everything paid for him until he is a full - fledged artist , an expert ; when he must be set up in life with a cargo of pretty things in a tasteful studio , to run in debt while he waits till he has done something to make the world ...
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