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"Specialise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opposite. Let us be charitable and look for better reasons. The mere milk of human kindness explains something, but not enough, and I am inclined to think that the Ayah is the subject of an indiscriminate maternal emotion, which runs where it can find a channel. The effect of culture is to specialise our affections and remove us further and further from the condition of the hen whose philoprogenitiveness embraces all chicks and ducklings; so it may well be that the poor Ayah, who has not had much culture, is better able than you or I to feel ...
— Behind the Bungalow • EHA
... contributors to her "effect," and, by taking up their quaint and pretty mispronunciations, and devising humorous additions to their natural baby talk, she teaches them to be much greater babies than they could ever possibly be themselves. They specialise as charming babies until their mother tires of the pose, and then they are thrust back into the nursery to recover leeway, if they can, under the care of governess ...
— Mankind in the Making • H. G. Wells |
Words linked to "Specialise" : flesh out, diversify, enlarge, specialisation, work, expatiate, generalize, elaborate, exposit, overspecialize, specialist, change, evolve, differentiate, expand, lucubrate, dilate, modify, vary, spell out, alter, expound |
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