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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Meaning please

hello,

"Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness, and the rudeness of their of rudeness are nothing to their goodness when they are good".

what does the above statement means?

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: There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid. The sentence you gave is a little bit the same!

  • : There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead.
  • When she was good, She was very, very good, But when she was bad she was horrid.
  • The sentence you gave is a little bit the same!
  • g.
  • he was very shrewd about his savings), but it can also have slightly negative connotations (as it seems to in the sentence you posted).
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Hello,

do you know the children's rhyme?:

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.

The sentence you gave is a little bit the same!


Shrewd means clever and cunning - usually with regard to money (

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