Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this Freshman was such a verdant fool...
...this Freshman was such a verdant fool...
...master at Sweet's Corners, Massachusetts, writes to the Clipper of November 19, that no such a person as Scoville lives, or ever has lived, at that place. The Spirit of November 26 gives Scoville the choice of the following three names as applied to himself, - a myth, a fool, or a swindler...
...more added. "Nihil nimis," and not "nimis" even of "nihil nimis," is the unconscious rule of life with him. What such a being will do in any given case cannot be determined by any formula. One can safely trust that he will not be laughed at for a fool, nor avoided as a boor. He will do the commonplace things - for all must. He may do some uncommonplace things - for a few must. More than these general statements in regard to his actions cannot be made; for he neither says what he will do nor does he do what...
...Three days before that examination, and haven't opened a book, - that's refreshing. What can keep chum so long? Oh, that this cold snap hadn't snapped the neck off all my bottles of Apollinaris Water! Forensic due Wednesday, and haven't written a word yet. What a fool I am! How I wish, instead of spending the evening with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what this paper is on the floor. Why, it's the morning Echo! 'E??? Echo, ha! ha! joke. Give that to their item editor, poor...