I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party.
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich.
O studious Poet, eloquent for truth !
I should like you to consider this letter as a resignation I want to resign as one of your most studious and faithful admirers.
Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.
One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely anyone who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him. The cleverest and most complaisant people content themselves with merely showing an attentive countenance, while we can see in their eyes and minds a wandering from what is said to them, and an impatience to return to what they wish to say instead of reflecting that it is a bad method of pleasing or persuading others to be so studious of pleasing oneself and that listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be attained in conversation.
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.
Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for.
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