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Since there will always be persons without sufficient judgment to discredit general remarks, those who pretend to be liberally educated should avoid them for the sake of their own reputation for common-sense. A man can make more sweeping assertions in five minutes than he could prove in a lifetime, and a habit of doing so is almost invariably a sign of an immature mind and a narrow judgment...
...simply necessary to state that "Christians," here used, is the name which one sect in the United States has chosen to assume. Their locality is Vermont, and the Southwest; their doctrines are liberal, and their creed is the Bible; although they cling to total immersion in baptism, yet they make it no test of fellowship. The first syllable of Christian as applied to their denomination is usually pronounced as in Christ, probably incorrectly, but this serves at least to mark a distinction in meaning. The word is not defined in its narrow sense by Webster. Ignorance of these facts...
...letter is getting long, and I must hurry on. Clubs are - clubs; join one, if you can get in, but do not make a home of it. It is very jolly to have a place to lounge in, and all that sort of thing. The great objection to it is that all who have the entree are tempted to become professional loungers, - a class of people, as I have often told you, who are not appreciated upon this side of the Atlantic. Tant pis pour nous...
...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 involves a habit of constant prevarication, which is anything but salutary in its effects. At the same time these secret organizations...
...Catalogue, and advised the public in general to spend their leisure moments in dipping into this interesting volume. And really, any one who will take his light reading in this way will find much which is not only instructive, but amusing as well, - some things, indeed, which would make a worthy theme for the Nation's satirical pen, which lately "did up" so well a certain institution in Tennessee. The first occasion for surprise the Catalogue-reader meets is, that, after the Faculty have been enumerated, the corps of College officers should be swelled by such names as those...