"Practicality" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Practicality is not altogether bad. It is often necessary in this practical world. What case is Mr. Kendrick likely to put in your hands which ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... freedom in this country, and the absolute medical freedom (until within a few years the colleges have procured medical legislation to help their diplomas, and their graduates) have given a progressiveness and practicality to American physicians which are beginning to be ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various
... perceived fully how silly, weak, grotesque, and vain I was; and yet, how big and wonderful, it would be to swim counter, as I meant, to the huge, swollen, successful currents of the commercial, bourgeois practicality of present-day America. ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... morning, Emil arrived at Sanin's hotel leading Tartaglia by a string. Had he sprung of German parentage, he could not have shown greater practicality. He had told a lie at home; he had said he was going for a walk with Sanin till lunch-time, and then going to the shop. While Sanin was dressing, Emil began to talk to him, rather hesitatingly, it is true, about Gemma, about her rupture with Herr Klueber; but Sanin ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... width of sympathy, his practicality, his range of interests were in nothing more seen than in his contributions to the history of Samoa, as specially exhibited in A Footnote to History and his letters to the Times. He was, on this side, in no sense a ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson - a Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial • Alexander H. Japp
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