Word: confession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine...
...contests were generally thought to be an excellent thing in affording an additional opportunity to men of matching themselves, and in giving them more practice for the Saratoga meetings; the number of entries was large and encouraging: this, last year. But now we are sorry to be obliged to confess that, up to the time of going to press, on the very eve of the first tournament, few entries have been made at all, and two only for sparring; there seems to be a general lack of interest this year, which is most aggravating, and very hard to account...
...some minds that if a person disapproves of actions either on the stage or in the auditorium of a theatre, his proper course is to stay away and not utter complaints. As we have said, we do not agree with these radical views. In fact, we are obliged to confess that the "social roughs," as one correspondent of the Transcript terms these offensive undergraduates, can learn from these letters many instructive truths. A word to the wise, we hope, will be sufficient...
...meet again and again men who are not and who never can be what you are, you need not make yourself like them. If you remember one of my old rules, you will always be right. Never do a thing which you will be ashamed, if need be, to confess. If you are true to yourself, you will never know what shame means. Make up your mind to be something, whatever that something may be. And be, if you can, something more than a prattler of stupid advice like...
...betrayed their confusion by blushing, stammering, talking like idiots, and playing alternately with their gloves and their watch-chains. All this was very entertaining, but at the same time it was so difficult to discover a man whose behavior was not either offensive or intolerably stupid that I confess that I was very much disgusted...