Word: forli
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The other is called "Every Man his own Thayer Club; or, How to Live Cheaply." It is written by a high-rank man, and evidently embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet...
"When Charles Lamb complained of the decay of beggers in the metropolis, he was surely thinking more of those who appeal for charity in the streets than of those who haunt the doors of our lodgings. These latter are the ones who besiege us, and nuisances they are. If I...
"Every tax is levied at the time and in the manner in which it is most convenient for the contributor to pay it. So that
"So we agreed that when either of us used language which transgressed the bounds of good taste, - in other words, when either was roused to profane remarks, - we should deposit in a box for the purpose one cent for every such remark, and the money thus obtained should constitute a...
"The moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me...