When you 've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at , and not to laugh at those that should n't , you 've got wisdom and understanding . '' `` What have you got out of your Redmond course , Anne ? '' murmured Priscilla aside . `` I think , '' said Anne slowly , `` that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory . Summing up , I think that is what Redmond has given me . '' `` I shall have to fall back on another Professor Woodleigh quotation to express what it has done for me , '' said Priscilla . `` You remember that he said in his address , ` There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it , and the heart to love it , and the hand to gather it to ourselves -- so much in men and women , so much in art and literature , so much everywhere in which to delight , and for which to be thankful . ' I think Redmond has taught me that in some measure , Anne . '' `` Judging from what you all , say '' remarked Aunt Jamesina , `` the sum and substance is that you can learn -- if you 've got natural gumption enough -- in four years at college what it would take about twenty years of living to teach you . Well , that justifies higher education in my opinion . It 's a matter I was always dubious about before . '' `` But what about people who have n't natural gumption , Aunt Jimsie ? '' `` People who have n't natural gumption never learn , '' retorted Aunt Jamesina , `` neither in college nor life . If they live to be a hundred they really do n't know anything more than when they were born . It 's their misfortune not their fault , poor souls . But those of us who have some gumption should duly thank the Lord for it . '' `` Will you please define what gumption is , Aunt Jimsie ? '' asked Phil . `` No , I wo n't , young woman . Any one who has gumption knows what it is , and any one who has n't can never know what it is .
So there is no need XXXXX defining it . ''
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