I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
“IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.”