Word: shun
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Profound and comprehensive advice given by an aged woman-hater to his nephew : "Shun the blondes, avoid the brunettes and fly from all the others...
That I long have sought to shun...
...than the dime novel or New York Weekly. The most valuable information in the volume is the quotation of Emerson's Three Rules of Reading, - beyond this there is little that is instructive. There is, however, much that is amusing. Henry Ward Beecher, for instance, advises all readers to shun history, as being little better than a fairy tale. Joseph Cook also makes many characteristic remarks in two papers that he contributes. The Rev. E. E. Hale and C. D. Warner have the most interesting papers in the book, - especially the latter, who wisely refrains from laying down dogmatic rules...