Word: sure
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...other hand, it is worth your while to be connected with the societies which are devoted to amusement. To be sure, as I remember them, they are not very amusing; but, at the same time, most of your friends will join them, and if you do not, you will feel as if you were out of the world, - which is not at all the same thing as feeling as if you were in heaven. In my time these societies were great political powers. When any class elections came, they would divide the various offices between themselves, and walk off with...
Last of all come the secret societies. Of these nobody knows anything, and the very mention of their name is an indiscretion which may produce the most direful results. In point of fact, I don't think that there are many of them, and I am sure that the members are not the deep-dyed villains which their enemies would have us to believe. But, at the same time, their achievements are not of a creditable sort. Bonfires, explosions, amateur burglary of private as well as of public property, and all that sort of thing, are not feats which...
...think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness, I am quite sure that they cannot have done you any harm, and I think that it is possible that they may have done you a little good...
Should I aspire, I am not sure...
...worth making? He may lead his class, and no one but his few rivals will care at all. He may be stroke of the crew, and men will pity him because he has taken so much trouble. He may write for the papers, but he is by no means sure that any one will read his articles...