Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...every one a toady who is not of his way of thinking." "Hatred toward the popular," "Ossip" quotes from La Rochefoucauld, "is nothing but love for popularity"; and he argues, in conclusion, that "the popularity which the independent man professes to scorn .... is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly...
...opinions or his views on college life and its proper motives does not appear. Nor is the reason evident why he should call every one who is not of his way of thinking a toady. Nor does it seem very clear why he should scorn the esteem, respect, and friendship of manly...
...what is this popularity which the independent man professes to scorn? It is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly men. The desire to be liked by those we know is a healthy one, and the individual who separates himself from this desire, who finds pleasure in the admiration of his own ideas, in the constant contradiction of others, and in the affected indifference to the world's sympathy, ought to be pitied for the solitary life he is leading, and for the sad memories he is laying up for the future...
This is a day when, in listening to the poet's and the orator's words, petty feelings of inequality, of jealousies, are forgotten and buried, when one more band is woven which firmly binds, in the dearest friendship, men who otherwise would hardly know one another...
...poor old societies thought were theirs by right. If this is true, it is possible that the popularity of the societies may follow their prestige. However, whether this occurs or not, you had better join one. If it does nothing more, it will serve as a bond of friendship between yourself and all the other members, past and present...