"Valuable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... books. Such pupils need to spend a great part of their time out-of-doors. They can be thus taught far more easily, will take a greater interest in their studies, and can gain both knowledge and skill which will be more valuable to them in the world of work. They also need to be taught indoors manual training, domestic science, printing, laundry work, scientific horticulture, scientific agriculture, dairying, and many other such branches. The recently projected vocational schools, continuation schools, half-time ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb
... trouble; the division had gone to its assistance, and that had been succeeded by the corps, and that by the entire army, and all those movements had amounted to nothing. Maurice trembled as he reflected how pricelessly valuable was every hour, every minute, in that mad project of joining forces with Bazaine, a project that could be carried to a successful issue only by an officer of genius, with seasoned troops under him, who should press forward ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... the past may be made to live again for the general reader more effectively by personifying it than by presenting it in the form of learned treatises on the development of the manor or on medieval trade, essential as these are to the specialist. For history, after all, is valuable only in so far as it lives, and Maeterlinck's cry, 'There are no dead', should always be the historian's motto. It is the idea that history is about dead people, or, worse still, about movements and conditions which seem but vaguely related to the labours ...
— Medieval People • Eileen Edna Power
... cupboards and presses, on tables and shelves, and in cabinets, there was an endless variety and wealth of treasures and curiosities. Pictures, bronzes, coins, old armour, old weapons, curiosities of historical value, others of natural production, others, still, of art; some of all these were very valuable and precious. To examine them must be the work of many days; it was merely the fact of their being there which Betty took in now, with a sense of the great riches of the new mental pasture-ground in which she found herself. She changed her dress in a kind of breathless ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... the cake problem. There is possibly no item in the home bill of fare on which a woman prides herself as the ability to make a good cake. But how to add variety to the goodness? Here's the book to help. Contains a large number of enticing and valuable recipes for cakes of all sorts and conditions. Some need filling, some need icing—well, here you have all the necessary information. Best of all, there is no fear as to results. Follow the directions and your cake is bound to come ...
— Sandwiches • Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer
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