Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Your room, to be sure, is furnished plainly; but your worst enemy could not call it shabby. And I flatter myself that it will not generally be pronounced to be in bad taste. The curtains, the paper, the furniture, and the carpet are in keeping with each other; and barring that horrible mantel-piece, which I did my best to conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures...
...show. Avoid tete-a-tete dinners, and expensive cigars, and all that sort of thing. Most people spend so much more than appears at first sight, that if you make what you pay out tell, you will get the credit of being vastly richer than you are. And keep your bills paid up. It is always easier to settle a small account than a large one, and if you pay your bills promptly you will not be so apt to have too much pocket-money, - which tempts a man to spend money in a way which can never...
...amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember to be enough of the man of the world never to be surprised at any theory that you may hear advanced, however absurd it may be. And remember to be politic enough not to openly express any doubt of the soundness of the opinions...
...system of class races was abandoned, because there was not class feeling enough to keep it up. Is it possible that the indifference about backing up one's own class crew can exceed the present unconcern about club races? The serious opinion among boating-men is that the present system has proved a failure, and that a return to the former custom of matching class-crews will keep up the attention of men who pulled in their Freshman crew, and will awaken in others an interest in boating. The class system has this advantage over the clubs; a man will...
...share the expense of keep and use of a saddle horse. Address...