Why, I learned more out of some of the old German books in the library than out of all their teaching." "But why didn't you graduate?
It would have sounded so nice to be able to say that you had graduated.

That's what I sent you for, you know, and I don't see what you got by going if you haven't graduated." "Why, mother, I got an education.

I thought that was what a college was for." "But how will anybody know that you're well-educated, I'd like to know, when you can't say that you've graduated ?" answered the mother petulantly.
"Whether they know it or not, I am." "I should think they'd know it just to look at him," said Katy, who thought that Albert's erudition must be as apparent to everybody as to herself.
Mr.Plausaby quietly remarked that he had no doubt Albert had improved his time at school, a remark which for some undefined reason vexed Albert more than his mother's censures.
"Well," said his mother, "a body never has any satisfaction with boys that have got notions.

Deliver me from notions.

Your father had notions.
If it hadn't been for that, we might all of us have been rich to-day.
But notions kept us down.