LEARN in Classic Quotes

1  She was quick to learn, but forgetful and dreamy, and not disposed to take the matter seriously.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  The fact that admiration for his learning mingled with Mattie's wonder at what he taught was not the least part of his pleasure.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  Zeena always came back laden with expensive remedies, and her last visit to Springfield had been commemorated by her paying twenty dollars for an electric battery of which she had never been able to learn the use.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  Great was her amazement, and that of old Mrs. Varnum, on learning that Ethan Frome's old horse had carried me to and from Corbury Junction through the worst blizzard of the winter; greater still their surprise when they heard that his master had taken me in for the night.

Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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