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...scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof, and if he cannot attract notice in one way he can in another. No one would bear any ill-will to a man who snorted in chapel through ignorance, but if he continued to disgust a crowd of men because...
...make the smallest effort of thine...
...place it has nothing to do with morality except in the department of fidelity arising out of self-respect. A man may get drunk every night, or keep a harem, or hold every heresy that theologians have denounced, and yet be a strictly honorable man. Lady Hamilton did not make Nelson less than the pink of honor, nor did Pitt's port prevent his being one of the purest and noblest statesmen that ever lived...
...classes, is at present an open one. We consider the former plan the better one for various reasons, the principal of which lie in the complete success which has attended the club system, and in its admirable fitness to our wants. We fail to see any sufficient inducement to make us abandon a system so plainly satisfactory to all, and recur to an old method of forming crews, which every one has been very glad to see given up. On each club crew all classes are generally well represented, and no other system is able to bring out such uniformly...
...meaning of the quotation is perfectly obvious, and is analogous to that of the proverb, "Time is no agent," by which Mr. Bratt shows clearly that the lapse of years, considered as so many months, days, and hours, will not make Brattville famous, but that its renown will be entirely owing to the fact that it was the place of his nativity...