"Personal matters" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is evident, however, that at times knowledge might be gained in the absence of any set problem upon which the learner reacts. For example, a certain person while walking along a road intent upon his own personal matters observed a boy standing near a high fence. On passing further along the street, he glanced through an opening and observed a vineyard within the inclosure. On returning along the street a few minutes later, he saw the same boy standing at a near by corner eating grapes. ...
— Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education • Ontario Ministry of Education
... notice his taciturnity and talked lightly to each other of their purchases and other personal matters. ...
— Peggy-Alone • Mary Agnes Byrne
... personal matter between us. Amid our studies we have no leisure or inclination for personal matters. It is an immutable law, and it is as impossible for us to relax it as it is for you to escape from it Sooner or later we shall come to you and claim your life in atonement for the ...
— The Mystery of Cloomber • Arthur Conan Doyle
... came a race who still find it lonely to be alone, and they herd together still for safety as of old, and have no love of physical speculation. They are daring in thought and theory, but cautious in physical and personal matters. An office stool followed by a pension contents all too ...
— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier
... complained about him—she was too close-mouthed they said. They freely told each other, and told her, of their hopes, fears, trials and triumphs—but Mrs. Paine's communications were yea and nay when the conversation was on personal matters, and she had a way of closing her ...
— Purple Springs • Nellie L. McClung
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