`` I ca n't , '' said Anne , sorrowfully . `` It seems just yesterday that Pris and I were alone in that crowd of Freshmen at Redmond . And now we are Seniors in our final examinations . '' '' ` Potent , wise , and reverend Seniors , ' '' quoted Phil . `` Do you suppose we really are any wiser than when we came to Redmond ? '' `` You do n't act as if you were by times , '' said Aunt Jamesina severely . `` Oh , Aunt Jimsie , have n't we been pretty good girls , take us by and large , these three winters you 've mothered us ? '' pleaded Phil . `` You 've been four of the dearest , sweetest , goodest girls that ever went together through college , '' averred Aunt Jamesina , who never spoiled a compliment by misplaced economy . `` But I mistrust you have n't any too much sense yet . It 's not to be expected , of course . Experience teaches sense . You ca n't learn it in a college course . You 've been to college four years and I never was , but I know heaps more than you do , young ladies . '' '' ` There are lots of things that never go by rule , There 's a powerful pile o ' knowledge That you never get at college , There are heaps of things you never learn at school , ' '' quoted Stella . `` Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash ? '' queried Aunt Jamesina . `` Oh , yes . I think we have , Aunty , '' protested Anne . `` We 've learned the truth of what Professor Woodleigh told us last Philomathic , '' said Phil .
`` He said , ` Humor is the spiciest condiment XXXXX the feast of existence .
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