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industrious, implying habitual devotion to labor; busy; assiduous.
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self-indulgence, gratification of one’s appetites; satisfying one’s desires.
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the passing hour, the present moment; the hour that is passing.
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inexorable, unyielding, relentless, not to be persuaded by entreaty or prayer.
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disinclined, unwilling to do something; aversed or indisposed.
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affect, pretend.
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schooled, disciplined; trained.
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shirking, avoiding an obligation or the performance of a duty;avoiding or evading meanly, unfaithfully, or by fraud.
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stingy, grudging in spending money; niggardly; miserly.
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cope, encounter, meet with.
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proficiency, advanced knowledge or skill; expertness.
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Oxford and Cambridge, the two greatest of the English Universities.
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mere pass degree, degree given to those who merely do the minimum amount of work, who merely pass or get by in their school work.
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at the bar, in the legal profession; as a lawyer.
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the first group, the highest group in the class; the best scholars.
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plays thereafter with loaded dice, has a distinct advantage thereafter in public life. Dice, which are small cubes marked with spots from one to six and are used in gambling games, are loaded when they have been so tampered with, by the addition of weight on one of the faces, that they will roll only certain winning numbers in the hands of the cheating player. He who plays with loaded dice has a distinct advantage over the other players and wins their money.
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Mr. Balfour, Arthur Jones （1848-1930）, British statesman and essayist, foreign secretary, 1916.
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Sir Edward Grey （1862-1933）, British statesman, foreign secretary, 1905.
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incorrigibly, bad beyond correction; irreclaimably.
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Balliol is one of the colleges of Oxford.
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Ф B K, Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society in American universities that elect the highest tenth of the senior class （and a lower percentage of juniors） into membership. The Phi Beta Kappa Society stands therefore for the highest scholastic achievements in the American college.
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Peel, Sir Robert （1788-1850）, British statesman, prime minister in 1834.
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Cardwell, Viscount Edward （1813-1886）, British statesman, supporter of Peel, secretary of the Treasury in 1845, war secretary, 1868, 1874.
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Sherbrooke, Viscount Robert Lowe （1811-1892）, British statesman, home secretary, 1873.
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Gladstone, William Ewart （1809-1898）, prime minister, 1868, 1880, 1886, 1892. One of England’s greatest political figure, 61 years in parliament.
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