Word: smile
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Augustus, then, be polite to old Smudge out of policy, if for no better reason, for I imagine he has a rather hard time, and will appreciate a pleasant smile and a kind nod; and who knows but what his aid may avert a dreaded "flunk" on some impossible question? (Smudge has a genius for knowing things that most people put down as "things no fellow can be expected to know,") But, at any rate, however this may be, Augustus will have the satisfaction of having acted like a gentleman...
...have spent several leisure hours lately trying to picture to myself some one raising his head from the fathomless sea of Malebranchean ethics (in which he has been kindly permitted to dive for three hours a week and to dabble in as often as he liked), and with a smile repeating Milton's lines...
...course composed of those who tacitly deny the great principle of the equality of mankind. There are men among us who, seeing that their fellow-students cannot afford new clothes, flaunt their gayly-colored garments in the faces of these very fellow-students. There are men who smile with self-glorifying complacency on their velvet chairs, who fill their rooms with rare works of art and literature, while they know that there are hundreds of others who cannot do likewise. There are men who, having been favored with early advantages, find in their memories stores of information and experience which...
...glorify thee"; "Keep thine eye open, thy hand ready, and thy mouth shut"; "Revile no man before his face, neither speak ill of him that is more powerful than thyself"; "Bow down before the great and the strong, and let the poor and the weak bow down before thee"; "Smile upon the face of thine enemy, and take thy vengeance in a secret place"; "Let gold and gaudy raiment* be ever before thine eyes"; "Let thy life be a life of revelry and of joy, but declare unto the world that thy days are full of care and of toil...
Where the dead sun may see her smile...