One picks their brains unconsciously.

There is another advantage, and not a small one, in this early entrance into good society.

A youth learns manners, self-possession, readiness of resource; and he is much less likely to get into scrapes and contract tastes for low vices and mean dissipation, when he comes into life wholly his own master, after having acquired a predilection for refined companionship under the guidance of those competent to select it.

There, I have talked myself out of breath.

And you had better decide at once in favour of my advice; for as I am of a contradictory temperament, myself of to-morrow may probably contradict myself of to-day." Sir Peter was greatly impressed with his cousin's argumentative eloquence.
The Parson smoked his cutty-pipe in silence until appealed to by Sir Peter, and he then said, "In this programme of education for a Christian gentleman, the part of Christian seems to me left out." "The tendency of the age," observed Mr.Mivers, calmly, "is towards that omission.