Word: money
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...your household gods, you have forgotten one of my express recommendations, - to avoid extravagance; and you have forgotten another thing which I have implied in all my letters, - that you ought to be, and to be known as, a man of taste. A rich fellow who believes that money alone is enough to carry him anywhere, and who lives up to his belief, does not occupy an enviable position. He is treated civilly, for hardly anybody can afford to cut him, but the whole world laughs at him behind his back. Now I don't happen to know your friend...
...books at all. It is a good plan, by the way, to keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books I need not say much. You are not fool enough to throw away your money on second-rate second-hand editions of ancient classics, nor yet to overload yourself with modern English novels. French novels are all right, and a few of them will help your reputation as a linguist. The only rule that I shall bore you with is never to read - far less buy - any book that...
...shall trust your taste in pictures, too. Don't overload your walls with old masters, and be called an old fool instead of a young one. Don't waste your money in sporting-prints and third-rate French engravings. But choose pictures that are worth looking at, and at the same time are within the very limited comprehension of the ordinary student. You don't want to seem a prig, nor yet a vulgarian. I should advise you to avoid shingles, for everybody has them; and men who have not taste enough to choose anything better hang them...
...himself in other ways, feels sure in his heart of hearts that he is level-headed,- to use an expressive bit of slang. If he makes any mistakes, it is always because he did not follow the dictates of his judgment. And every man considers his views of money matters to be as sound as sound can be. People who agree with him he considers as sound as himself. People who do not agree with him he calls fools. Now of course you do not want to be called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell...
...variety of the subscription lists passed around lately is truly appalling. Now it is drums, next the visit of the foot-ball team to Canada, then the boat-club, and so on, until we are forced to cry out with the poet, "How long, O Lord, how long!" Money is one of the necessary evils of this life, and it needs no argument to show that the various interests of the College cannot stand without subscriptions. For all that, the thing is not to be pushed to extremities; and it might be well for the promoters of the next grand...