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After all   /ˈæftər ɔl/   Listen
After all

adverb
1.
Emphasizes something to be considered.  "He is, after all, our president"
2.
In spite of expectations.  "It didn't rain after all"






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"After all" Quotes from Famous Books



... not neglect the careful reading of books of acknowledged merit bearing on your work. The more notes you take in the course of your reading the more fully you will assimilate the author's thought, while, at the same time, you furnish the easiest means of rapid review. After all, your soundest basis for work will be your deep and continuing love for it, and your willingness to labor long and conscientiously to attain excellence. Do not imagine that the profession of an artist is that of an idler. On the contrary, ...
— Crayon Portraiture • Jerome A. Barhydt

... nature's vast play of forces; earthquakes, fire, volcano, flood, wind, sand spouts of enormous height and velocity, one after the other all these elemental storms must have rocked and heaved and rent and tortured the earth and after all had passed by, the hurricane of volcanic fire and missiles must have scattered the debris of high mountains twisted into lumps of matter, varying in size from a ...
— The High Calling • Charles M. Sheldon

... of the trees, of the grass! Isn't it wonderful; isn't it wonderful?" And a few seconds later, quite irrelevantly: "And, after all, we failed." ...
— A Man's Woman • Frank Norris

... Bobolink, excitedly jumping to his feet. "They followed us here after all, and have been ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren

... any of the bold expression that usually characterised him, "what can a man do when he's to be well paid for the job? I do confess that I don't half like it, but, after all, what have we got to do weth the opinions of owld aunts or uncles? If a gurl do choose to go off wi' the man she likes, that's no matter to we, an' if I be well paid for lendin' a hand, why shouldn't I? But it do puzzle me, Mr Tregarthen, to guess how ...
— Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines • R.M. Ballantyne


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