A book is for everybody, and can therefore, only give general instruction; but when you come to do the thing you will always find it works with some personal modifications,-not departures from the general principles you have read about, but specializations of them-and in this way you will learn much that is not to be got out of books, even the best.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward
All that was vague and indefinite did not matter; such might even be accounted as admirable specializations in life, but his acquaintance had been prodigious, and many clippings came home to him which he was not pleased to read....
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
The results of the ethnologists are so tangled here that one has to be cautious when one or another of them draws conclusions concerning immigrations, because of certain local or territorial specializations.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes