Word: life
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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There is in the Old World, and possibly in the New World too, an unfortunate set of men who have succeeded in living so extremely fast that they are utterly tired out long before they have reached the period of life when a normally developed human being begins to think that things are not as good as they used to be. They are blessed with leisure and with money, or with that blessed faculty of making other people pay for their amusement, which is quite as good as money, and they have dipped into everything under the sun. The monotony...
...possible from their fellow-countrymen. Charmed with the easy-going indifference of those elegant men of leisure whose drearily monotonous lives are far less happy than that of the struggling Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate. And they mistake the weakness of starvation for the inertia of surfeit...
...more commonplace style you will soon be laughing at me, and this is almost the only letter that I have written to you which I do not wish to be laughed at. I really think that you ought to convince yourself at the very beginning of your college life that an existence of elegant and useless ease is not the existence to which you were born. We live in a country where men are growing more and more equal every day of their lives. We are not born to great fortunes and to names which of themselves carry men through...
...mean that you ought to forget that you are a gentleman. Although in the struggle of life you will have to meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something...
...themselves now to make it more of a success than it was last year. There is no reason why it should not succeed if the interest can be kept up. It is better than the old class-system it succeeded, but it needs at present some one to put life into it. We are sorry to hear that the captain of at least one club is anxious to perpetuate the plan of making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared. This was done last fall from necessity, but we said then, and we say now, that...