Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that you need not bother yourself to come in here when you want to find out, you know." No go. He came in just the same. The only result has been to give him a great idea of my superior wisdom, the consequence of which is that he appeals to me for confirmation every time he screws up his courage to venture an opinion on some abstruse subject, the weather for instance. "What...
...your home. You will hear things said and see things done, which you have always been taught to regard-with holy horror. For example, I will speak of drunkenness. I am familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed to the influence of liquor deserved to be excluded from the society of civilized Christians. I am also familiar enough...
...when I am in haste, you know...
...year, to shake hands with number one, and then, either to take up with number two, or to resume the freedom of bachelor-ship. For, in chumming, it is possible to follow out Lord Dundreary's idea, "If you find you don't like me, you know, you can go back to your mamma...
When the time comes in which knowledge can be measured by its thoroughness; when men receive a degree because they know well something that is worth knowing, and higher honors are given to men who learn much in a short time than to those who are twice the time in acquiring the same thing; when the great principle that men are responsible to themselves and to no one else for their education is fully recognized, both by those who study and those who teach, - then, and not till then, Harvard will cease to be a high school or a college...