Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thing in dress or manner that strikes your fancy, make it your own; but always cum grano mutationis. Flatter your model by a resemblance; do not offend him by an identity. Let him think that the variation means superior excellence on his side; be satisfied with knowing, yourself, that you have changed only to improve. Enough on this score. Your inborn qualities will either make or mar you here. No education, no counsel - even of the sagest - can help you. You must stand or fall on your own merits. The next grand division of the subject, where care and study...
...CLEVER.It's not such a very hard thing, you know, to be clever. Not that I mean to say that every one can be. I only mean that you needn't be a genius, or even unusually bright. You must have the average amount of ability, plenty of confidence, and, above all, you must keep trying. If you keep trying all the time you are sure to hit on something that will pass for a witticism, and when you have once got off a good thing you can afford to be silly or stupid for a month - or until...
...complaint is that Mrs. Burnett would have us consider that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story we accept the situation: there is nothing to get hold of. How can we hope to know a character that never existed in the author's mind as a human, breathing creature...
...consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done man can (en)du(re). But the pitcher may go to the bat once too often. If the Calendar goes back on me, I feel - nay, I know - that the Somerville Society of Naturals will welcome to its midst one of Harvard's bright particular stars. Good Heavens! what do I know? - or rather, what don't I know? At a Greek reading, I can tell you the style of worm they used for fishing in the Pliocene...
...thought he looked terror-stricken at this; and I therefore concluded that he did not love his wife. Men of genius are seldom fitted for quiet domestic joys. I know this is so, for they are never at home when I call...