After having completed an education in which, perhaps, more than any other citizen of that time I had advantages, and which of course brought with it the incumbent duty of manifesting by my life that those extraordinary advantages of education, secured to me by my father, had not been worthlessly bestowed,-on coming into life after such great advantages, and having the duty of selecting a profession, I chose that of the Bar.
"Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams."
Josiah Quincy
With her weak limbs and head worthlessly paining, the little infantile I within her ceased to wail, dwindled beyond sensation.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith