Word: tempters
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...paint things as they are, and not as they ought to be; if they would endeavor to point out that virtue and temporal advancement do not always go hand in hand, that because a man is good he is not necessarily the idol of his class, that the tempter is by no means an "adversary," but with views very similar to one's own; - if all this could come about, there would be less disgust and failure in college, less disappointment and mortification at home...