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For I have already reaped from it such fruits that, although I have been accustomed to think lowly enough of myself, and although when I look with the eye of a philosopher at the varied courses and pursuits of mankind at large, I find scarcely one which does not appear in vain and useless, I nevertheless derive the highest satisfaction from the progress I conceive myself to have already made in the search after truth, and cannot help entertaining such expectations of the future as to believe that if, among the occupations of men as men, there is any one really excellent and important, it is that which I have chosen.

In 1809 Count Ilya Rostov was living at Otradnoe just as he had done in former years, that is, entertaining almost the whole province with hunts, theatricals, dinners, and music.

Madame de Villefort, who had not yet sufficiently recovered from her late emotion to allow of her entertaining visitors so immediately, retired to her bedroom, while the procureur, who could better depend upon himself, proceeded at once to the salon.

I regret, therefore, that I cannot have the pleasure of entertaining your husband and yourself during Cowes week.

Gorgias of Leontium, partly entertaining the same doubt, and partly in jest, says, that as a mortar is made by a mortar-maker, so a citizen is made by a citizen-maker, and a Larisssean by a Larisssean-maker.

LIKE MOST READERS, I THINK OF THE POTTER AND HOBBIT tales as entertaining and enchanting stories, not religious allegories.

After two hours of entertaining, I can give him his bath.

Besides being an entertaining and engaging way to illustrate and apply course content, this approach reinforces the university's commitment to interdisciplinary education and specifically encourages linkages between the business school and the arts.

Each painting in The Upper Room, 1999-2002 (a name chosen not only because this was the gallery's second floor but because Christ's last meal with his disciples occurred in the upper room of an inn), carries the hieratic image of a vessel-bearing monkey: a rhesus macaque, an animal described in the show catalogue as "loud, active, entertaining, fearsomely intelligent--the consummate cheeky monkey." Each macaque, painted with a pattern of monochrome dots, sits against fields of gorgeously swirling hues put down in translucent layers mixing floral motifs and purely abstract figures, recalling, for instance, Paul Signac's bizarre portrait of Felix Feneon.

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