Word: neither
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR SIRS, - I trust that I write to you for the last time, having neither the inclination nor the leisure to start a controversy with your boating...
...done well, a knowledge of this fact encourages him to work so as to do as well on the Annuals; if he has done poorly, he should be informed, so that he may mend his ways and do better for the rest of the year. In neither case does harm result. To particularize, some fear that the marks will not be announced in History 6. This is a course which has never been given before, which is on a rather indefinite subject, and which is largely taken by Seniors, - all of these facts are reasons enough why the marks should...
...gentlemen. To be sure, in nine cases out of ten this behavior is due to mere thoughtlessness, and I do not doubt that many a good fellow - in every sense of the word - has taken part in it. But I am sure that by such behavior a man gains neither in self-respect nor in caste, - for want of a better word; and if these societies make any overtures to you - as I cordially hope that they will not - I must beg of you to politely decline them. They can't help you, and they may hurt you; for membership...
...already impressed upon you the folly of expressing an idea, which is not absolutely demanded, in the least different from that which happens to be popular, let me do it now. You will at once be set down for either a bore or a fool, and you will find neither reputation to your advantage. You need not think with the rest of the world, but it does not pay to tell them that...
...Neither of these classes have any time to spare to think of their behavior. As long as they do nothing downright indecent they are contented; and I am sorry to say that the world is very apt to be contented too. At the same time, as somebody or other said, there was never a spot on earth so wicked that a man could not live a good life there if he wanted to; and there never was a place where manners were so horribly bad that a man who chose to be well-bred could-not succeed. I have seen...