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...independent" man who does all this would be a cross between a boor and a fool. When "Ossip" shows the necessary connection between independence and such actions he certainly will show how unsatisfactory a thing independence is; but in the mean while the old prejudice in favor of it will remain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "CONCEIT vs. CUSTOM." | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...following cheerful prophecy appears in the columns of the Yale Lit: "'Lampy' has deserted us; he is grown up now, but, if we are not mistaken, he will return a wiser and a sadder fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...Wille sayd: "By Johan I am no fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROCTOURES TALE OF GAMBLYN. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

...them is that they do not often attack unless they are attacked. And then they turn upon you all their batteries of petty malice. My advice on this matter is pretty much what it is on every other, - keep your own counsel. Be independent, but do not be fool enough to thrust your independence into people's faces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 2/9/1877 | See Source »

...becomes stroke of the crew, other men, no matter what their taste may be, will respect and admire him, as men on our crews have in times past been respected and admired. No one will call him a fool for his pains, and hint they could have done as well by making fools of themselves in the same way. If he rides, he will have admiration of another kind perhaps, but he will be acknowledged, all the same, to have done something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REMEDY. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

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