Word: safest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff and laff and the Yankee's parst and larst is to follow the medio tutissimus ibis rule of Ovid...
...gayeties of our Alma Mater, and as yet have hardly had time to stop and think. Now here my sermon begins. Don't float along with the tide, like Tom, Dick, and Harry, never thinking where it is bearing you. First look about you, and determine what is the safest course to steer. No doubt you think my advice hardly flattering, inasmuch as it implies that you are unacquainted with so much as the A B C of the man-of-the-world's alphabet; but when you have discovered how thoughtless even men with a very fair share...
...aversion to any particular vices that whenever he meets a new man he can gauge his character, he can set off his good points against his bad ones; and if he finds that the good points predominate, he can safely call him a fit man for a friend. The safest rule to govern your own conduct is this; Never do anything which you are ashamed to confess. If you stick to this you will not have to lie, and if you can avoid lying you will find that your course through life will be pretty plain sailing...