Word: exceptionality
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...merely in the catalogue, or, at most, have a nodding - I can't say bowing - acquaintance with. Now, shall we confess to these outsiders that there are many different circles of friends in each class, and that we are, in short, cliquish? Doggy, who never speaks to any one except the four men who got into his society ahead of him, and some six or seven who came after him, says he does n't see that there's any exclusiveness here. Yet you'd be less surprised to find Waitt when you want him than to see Doggy talking...
...acquaintances, mostly of chance or policy, to whom the name friends is often falsely applied, and be on terms of suppressed warfare with every one else. I don't ask Doggy, who, I see, is looking shocked, to be intimate with Grinder, but merely not to treat all except his few associates
...George had pleasant manners, plenty of money, and an entire lack of morality, and showed no unpleasant tendency towards independence, he soon became very popular. He was elected into various societies; to be sure, he cared nothing for art, and was not exactly religious, - except on Sunday, - but there is no pleasing those obstinate people who cannot see how a man can be religious and dissipated at the same time. "'T is as easy as lying." Plenty of men combine...
...STARTING SIGNALS.All races (except time handicaps) shall be started by report of pistol fired behind the competitors...
INNER GROUNDS.No person whatsoever will be allowed inside the track except the officials and properly accredited representatives of the press...