Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great many men think that to exercise taste entails expense. This is a false impression. In the first place, cultivation is shown as much by a man's pictures as by any other one thing; and, if we cannot dive into original Jeromes, Meissoniers, Fortunys, etc., we can, at least, enjoy their presence in photographs or engravings such as are to be purchased in Boston for as little as the wretched and oft-repeated prints of Landseer, Ansdell, etc., that cover our walls. Again, a Turkish rug of good quality can be had for nearly the same...
...very objectionable practice of eating with their knives, while others, of a more vicious if more elegant temperament, indulge in various excesses of behavior and language which cannot command the approval of sober-minded men. At the same time, there is a good side to all this. Every man must sooner or later learn to take care of himself; and nowadays most men come to college at an age when this lesson is by no means premature. At first the wickedness of the world seems overpowering but before long they find that it is possible to live in a very...
...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 with the phenomena of the beginning of a Freshman-year, to understand that you have probably been invited already to about a dozen punches, from which...
...very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these principles were instilled into you in a very strong and somewhat exaggerated from. But from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition of mine, he is never surprised and never shocked. At the same time, while he recognizes the existence of all sorts of evils...
...that my advice to you comes too late, - that you have already done several things of which you are ashamed. All right. Don't do any more; and if you can control yourself in the future you will have obtained experience that will be valuable to you as a man of the world. I have nothing left but to beg a thousand pardons for this long sermon from