Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...friend, I shall be obliged to study during almost the whole time in future, and my door will be often locked to keep out loafers; so whenever you come here, just cry out 'Sancho Panza,' and I shall know who is without." Why proceed? Of course the name of poor Sancho never proved the "open sesame" to our room, and my chum's edition of Don Quixote remains a fragment...
...till proven false, is regarded false until proven true. This seems manifestly an unfair, not to say discourteous, method of treating him. Why should one man's testimony in this case counterbalance that of two or three others. The assumption that a student will lie is paying him a poor compliment as a gentleman, and to affirm that a graduate is incapable of it or of mistakes is to impute to the "sheep-skin" greater virtues than we had hitherto supposed it to have possessed...