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idiosyncrasies, a person’s peculiar physical or mental charaeteristics.
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sketches from life, drawings of persons around him, his classmates, the teacher.
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furtively, secretly; stealthily; slyly.
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by dint of application, by force of paying particular attention; by fixing one’s mind closely or attentively to a particular subject.
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real-estate man, an agent who negotiates the sale of property, land, and houses. Landed property is known as real estate.
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taken himself for better for worse, an echo of the marriage oath as pronounced in Christian churches, meaning “no matter what may happen to him.”
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take a spiritual elevator, probe into what he thinks; find out what his mind is dwelling on.
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He does business on the ground floor. He is there at his occupation all the time so that it is very easy to locate him and to label him.
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The old prophet, Joel, in the Old Testament of the Bible, the Book of Joel, Chapter II, verse 28:
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“And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.” The same words were uttered by Peter in the Book of Acts, Chapter II, verse 17, of the New Testament.
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“all there,” completely there. Is he paying his whole attention to what you are saying; is the whole of him there besides you?
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“priest’s hole,” a secret place of worship, necessary in times of religious persecution.
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lost Atlantis, a mythical island in the west, beyond the Pillars of Hercules （Gibraltar, at the western entrance into the Mediterranean Sea）, mentioned by Plato, Pliny, and other ancient writers, and said to have been sunk beneath the ocean by an earthquake. Lord Bacon has written a “New Atlantis” in which a British vessel is carried by contrary winds to the lost Atlantis.
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Utopia, the ideal state proposed by Thomas More （1478-1535）, in a book entitled “Utopia.” The word Utopia has been applied to all the pictures of ideal states created by social philosophers and visionaries.
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Dogberry, the stupid constable in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing.”
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Messina, in northeast Sicily, Italy, where the action of this Shakespearean play takes place.
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Julius Cæsar, the great Roman general, statesman, and writer （100-44 B.C.）.
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laurel crown, worn by only those Greek and Romans who have won distinction, and worn as a sign of distinction.
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he had had losses in his hair; in other words, Cæsar was partially bald-headed, and he tried to arrange his laurel crown so that it concealed the bald spot on his head.
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the sons of Jacob . Consult the Bible, the Book of Genesis, Chapters XLII-XLVI for the whole of this story.
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audacities, qualities of being daring, adventurous, bold.
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adolescence, youth, or the period between puberty and maturity.
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as Saint Paul asked of the Galatians, see the Bible, the Book of Galatians, Chapter V, verse 7.
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Walt Whitman （1819-1892）, American poet. In 1855 the first edition of his “Leaves of Grass” appeared, which met with very little critical approval because of its frankness and its unconventional verse form. But his influence on later generations of poets was incalculable, not only by releasing poetry from accepted traditions, but by immensely expanding the thematic material.
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Spontaneous Me, the individual acting without external stimulus but wholly from an inner impulse or energy.
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