Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...merely a "shave," without the slightest pretence of right or justice on its side. It was suggested, in defence of the bank, that New York exchange was not as valuable to them as money in Cambridge. This would be very strange, and a case without parallel; but this defence, poor as it was, is destroyed by the fact that this same charge is made even if the check is drawn on a Boston bank. But it may be said that only regular customers can expect to obtain especial favors, and that students are not included in this class. That...
...making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more likely to obtain it? Is not the very meaning...
Surely they left this poor world at its best...
...Poor Times is dead, that wretched hoax...
...poor old pipe; and darker days...