Word: making
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...bore you with any more illustrations. You can soon learn how to laugh at people, and how to make them think that you are laughing with them. And when you learn that, ennui will vanish, and you will be as consummate a man of the world...
...Would make a dozen men like...
...criticisms made by the Editors of the Advocate on the communication of C. E. P. deserve some consideration. I therefore beg leave to make use, on this occasion, of your paper...
...fact is, that neither of these views is right. Until this year you have been a boy. It was thought proper, and very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these principles were instilled into you in a very strong and somewhat exaggerated from. But from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition...
...return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been no one present to share my laugh, have considered...