Word: misere
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...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...