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...even the boy who dusts the office and kindles the fire and runs of errands is for the time at least more valued and more valuable than you; since he does some deed, even though it be a small one, well, while you are utterly inexperienced and unpractised! So smoke on, and dream on, and enjoy your glory while it lasts; for when you have departed from this charmed circle, it will have vanished forever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAUDEAMUS IGITUR. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

FEELING sociably inclined, the other evening, I descended from my room in search of some one to smoke with, talk with, or walk with, it mattered not which, provided I could only gratify my longing to be with my fellow-men. One room after another I tried, where congenial souls are wont to congregate, but dark windows or unanswered knocks told the same story for all; and, at length, I found myself in the Yard, as companionless as ever. "Why, O my chum," I groaned as I gazed at the gloomy window-panes of my room, "didst thou avail thyself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

...should, I admit, be avoided, - it is still possible to avoid his company. Even here, half-deafened, if I choose to listen, by the noise that fills the room, - for the Sophomores at the next table are getting exceedingly uproarious, - I am alone, "enclosed in a tumultuous privacy of" - smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OVER A SCHOONER. | 11/17/1876 | See Source »

Plunged in the torches' smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARGE OF THE (TORCH) LIGHT BRIGADE. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

...seen an angry cloud of smoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO DAWNINGS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

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