Excerpts from the Book 'As We Go':

... upon the steps of the dais to greet the devoted Centennial Quadrille, which passed before him with the courageous five, 'Imperator, morituri te salutamus'. ...
... the presence of masculine stupidity. Of course the radical trouble of this world is that there are not more people who are interesting comrades, day in ...
... This sobering thought suggests a duty that the young women are neglecting. We refer to the education of the young men. It is all very well for them ...
... and be talked to candidly, without taking advantage of that false shelter of sex behind which women have been accused of dodging. If she is nothing ...
... A HUSBAND OPEN HIS WIFE'S LETTERS. Can a husband open his wife's letters. That would depend, many would say, upon what kind of a husband he is. But ...
... it was said of some of their neighbors in the Union that they exaggerated its importance, and neglected the weightier things of the law. Indeed, disputes ...
... to suicides, and we observe that long-continued clouds and rain beget crossness and ill-temper, and we are all familiar with the universal exhilaration ...
... that the Kentuckian is not like the Bostonian, for each has a quality that makes intercourse with him pleasant. In the South many people think they have ...
... that it is. At any rate, those nations that have the most of it are the most prosperous, and those people who have the most of it are the most agreeable ...
... being generous. Of course it may become a sort of dissipation, or more than that, a devastation, as many men who have what are called good wives have ...
... did not trouble themselves about the matter they froze or thawed, were hot or cold, as it pleased the gods. They did not think of fleeing from ...
... to forty-five years to the census-taker, she has again the position and the privileges of the blooming woman of thirty. Her daughters walk meekly and ...
... and be the first to see the fireworks of the new era. He thinks that he occupies an advanced station of observation, from which his telescope can ...
... a passing phase in human history. But as it is, the world has ever since been in love with his ideal woman, and still believes in her possibility. Now ...
... They might make it one of the most interesting. THE TALL GIRL. It is the fashion for girls to be tall. This is much more than saying that tall ...
... think of everybody is not a good one, and the record of such opinions and impressions, while it is not so mischievous to the public as talking may be, ...
... of character, of dash and flavor and as to lips, why, you must have some sort of presentable lips to whistle thin ones will not. The whistling ...
... perhaps more, so that half the race on coming to immaturity would be in child asylums. And then others who would be stingy and greedy and avaricious, ...
... independence of the American citizen who deserves well of his country, makes his way to the nearest hospitable tavern. THE ISLAND OF BIMINI. To the ...
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