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Saint Bernard once said that it is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low, but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.

Too many people spend their lives striving for the attainment of material wealth.

Studies show that the impact of social origin on educational attainment has declined over the past century.

Stanley Baldwin once stated that the attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

Studies show that the impact of social origin on educational attainment has declined over the past century.

It might be truly said of one who held the alchemical conception of nature that "his foible was omniscience"; and omniscience negatives the attainment of knowledge.

With this proposal, arduous as was the task, to deliver a course of lectures on almost every branch of human attainment, Dr.

The important points to bear in mind, I think, are that there should not be too many subjects in the curriculum, and that the aim should be the attainment of thorough and sound knowledge of each.

But its tiny, rounded, urn-shaped flowers, which come in May and June, are white, not salver form and pink; the entire plant is not rusty-hairy; the dark little leathery evergreen leaves are spatulate, and, moreover, it bears small but abundant clusters of round, berry-like fruit, an attainment the arbutus still struggles for, but cannot yet reach.

' Again, as Eleanor heard the sweet strains, and saw the long shadows of the trees and the light of the rising moon, it was like the attainment of her dreamland; and Margaret proceeded to make known to her sisters Maitre Alain Chartier, the prince of song, adding, 'Thou, too, wast a songster, sister Elleen, even while almost a babe.

In the second place, it enables us to take a definite step in the attainment of a scientific æsthetic, by furnishing a means of comparative study.

The attainment of this object is so tremendously desirable that it cannot forever baffle human ingenuity.

I myself have not had occasion to remark this fact, but I have often noticed that the presence of certain people favoured the attainment of results, while the presence of others troubled or stopped it.

In by far the greater number of animals, we are precluded from the possibility of discovering nerves by their minuteness; yet the actions of these animals, not merely excited by mechanical irritation, but so obviously directed to the attainment of an end, oblige us to infer their existence even where our senses, aided by the best glasses, do not enable us to detect them.

[1] CHAPTER I ANGLO-SAXON AND NORMAN POLICE In the days before the attainment of English unity, the maintenance of the peace was the care of certain local institutions and bodies, the nature of which need not here be specified.

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