Can anyone figure out the central idea of this aphorism? admiration at their novelty heightens the value of your achievements, it is both useless and insipid to play with the cards on the table. if you do not declare yourself immediately, you arouse expectation, especially when the importance of your position makes you the object of general attention. mix a little mystery with everything, and the very mystery arouses veneration. and when you explain, be not too explicit, just as you do not expose your inmost thoughts in ordinary intercourse. cautious silence is the holy of holies of worldly wisdom. a resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only leaves room for criticism. and if it happens to fail, you are doubly unfortunate. besides you imitate the divine way when you cause men to wonder and watch.

Read the following excerpt from fast food nations which of the following choices best presents a counterclaim to the argument presented in this excerpt

Which phrase in this excerpt from james joyce's "araby is a participial phrase? north richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the christian brothers' school set the boys free. an uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. the other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces the former tenant of our house, a priest, had died in the back drawing-room. air, musty from having been long enclosed, hung in all the rooms, and the waste room behind the kitchen was littered with old useless papers. among these i found a few paper-covered books, the pages of which were curled and damp: the abbot, by walter scott, the devout communicant and the memoirs of vidocq. i liked yellow. the wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree and a few straggling bushes under one of which i found the late tenant's rusty bicycle-pump. he had been a very charitable priest, in his will he had left all his money to institutions and the furniture of his house to his sister.

Which of the narrator's statements in "the yellow wallpaper" suggests that she does not think women are too frail to be intellectual? a. i verily believe she thinks it is the writing which made me sick! b. of course i didn't do a thing. jennie sees to everything now. c. i don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and i'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. d. so i walk a little in the garden or down that lovely lane, sit on the porch under the roses, and lie down up here a good deal.