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...care with which the monies of this penurious university are looked after is certainly wonderful. Such care, indeed, would be the delight of an ordinary miser, who scrimps himself until he has impaired many of his faculties, and would likewise make the heart of a Jersey bank cashier sink within him. Take for instance the condition of the chapel on a dark day and the force of this remark will be evident to all. To make the services there as wholesome as possible the authorities seem bound to have them run on an economical manner that each morning a lesson...
...very few persons to his confidence. He has always lived in Cambridge in a college dormitory. He was genial, however, and visited frequently in the families of his friends. Living as he did, his income was little used for his own needs, but he was not at all a miser. His gifts in charity were large, and he found many ways to extend a helping hand to his fellowmen. One noticeable act of generosity was his giving to his native village in Greece a system of public water-works, the need of which he saw upon his visit there...
...think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same thing. All I tell you to do is to listen amiably to other men's nonsense, and to keep your own counsel. Remember to be enough...