Word: wretch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Journal exposes the professional money-lenders, who send seductive circulars to Freshmen, and fleece most unmercifully the unhappy wretch who falls into their clutches...
...sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more likely to obtain it? Is not the very meaning of culture the education...