"Dumb" is a word in ENGLISH
Destitute of the power of speech; unable; to utter articulate
sounds; as, the dumb brutes.
Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not
accompanied by words; as, dumb show.
To put to silence.
Lacking brightness or clearness, as a color.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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A college student in a philosophy class was taking his first examination. On the paper there was a single line which simply said: "Is this a question?" - Discuss. After a short time he wrote: "If that is a question, then this is an answer." The student received an "A" on the exam. A Boston brokerage house advertised for a "young Harvard graduate or the equivalent." Among the inquiries received was one from a Yale grad. He said, "Do you mean two Princeton men, or a Yale man part time?"
salagúran - A place or institution for the support or relief of some class of destitute or afflicted persons; asylum, …
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