Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side.
Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for white America for the places we have to get to.
Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.