He'll gossip with you and sit idling with you for the hour together, if you'll let him.

There's nothing wrong about him, and he'd like nothing better than that." "You don't believe that he's idle by disposition?
Think of all that he has done already." "That's just what is most against him.

He might do very well with us if he had not got that confounded fellowship; but having got that, he thinks the hard work of life is pretty well over with him." "I don't suppose he can be so foolish as that, Theodore." "I know well what such men are, and I know the evil that is done to them by the cramming they endure.

They learn many names of things--high-sounding names, and they come to understand a great deal about words.

It is a knowledge that requires no experience and very little real thought.