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But I know that the other way is the best way, and I've got to follow it.

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  1. noun A road, path, or highway affording passage from one place to another.
  2. noun An opening affording passage: This door is the only way into the attic.
  3. noun Space to proceed: cleared the way for the parade.

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  • The beautiful woman had lived the life of an earnest Epicurean in her own way, regardless of society's conventionalities, and had apparently demonstrated that her way was the best. —  Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century
  • That, to be sure, is my way, and the other way is hers—but somehow it doesn't seem good-hearted to be so very, very superior to children as to shun the little loving beautiful creatures. —  The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
  • The man who follows any branch of natural science in this way is almost always especially happy in its prosecution; and his mental powers are refreshed and invigorated for the more serious and engrossing if less congenial occupation of his life. —  John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works
  • The difficulty that had hitherto stood in the way was as to the manner in which the interposition of the King's authority could be brought to bear constitutionally on the measure, during its progress through Parliament. —  Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third.
  • What induced them to take up such an attitude and to act as if they honestly believed that the fate of Germany could possibly be changed in this way was the cool calculation that if this did not happen our people might take the reins into their own hands and choose another road Of course it is difficult for us to propose England as our possible ally in the future. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The German Post-War Policy of Alliances
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English weg; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also waye, waie; from Middle English way, wai, wey, wei, weye, weie, wæi, from Anglo-Saxon weg = Old Saxon weg = OFries. wei = Middle Dutch wegh. D. weg = Middle Low German Low German weg = Old High German Middle High German wec, G. weg = Icelandic vegr = Swedish väg = Danish vej = Gothic (Moesogothic) wigs, a way, road, = Latin via, Old Latin vea, orig. *veha = Lithuanian weza, track of a cart, = Sanskrit vaha, a road, way; from the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon wegan, etc., bear, carry, = Lvehere, carry, = Sanskritvah, carry: see weigh. From the same verb are ult. English wain and wagon, etc., and, from the L., vehicle, etc. For the English words from Latin via, see via. Hence away (reduced to way), and way ward, etc.
  2. from way, n.
  3. from Middle English way, wey; by apheresis from away.
 

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