Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...moment his right foot is over the bench he begins, and then (with his hands in his coat-tail pockets) he keeps on in a very measured and confident tone, pausing for breath between each word. He makes translating Latin at sight his specialty. We all know, too, the man who parades his knowledge by prompting you at a place which you know fully as well as he does. He is only a little less provoking than the man who will not prompt you when you want...
...course you know, during your first year or two at college, you cannot expect to mingle with the gay world as if you were a grown man. Even the delightful assemblies of which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older...
...have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops to think; and if you can't do it in that...
Take care not to live with men alone. Choose your friends with care; i. e. know people who will be of use to you, and try to make them think that you are of use to them. But don't let your snobbishness take the form of boasting of your own rank. If you are a gentleman, the whole world can see it; and if you are not, you had better not call attention to the fact. We are all snobs, you know. But our snobbishness differs as much as do our noses. The peculiar form of snobbishness which...
...Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing to know how far his disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge which they have received from him during the past three months. But on the whole there is a sublime indifference to such petty annoyances; more, indeed, than...