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Every four years, when the Olympics roll around again, journalists seem automatically to recycle those misty-eyed notions about “Good Old Days

In fact, the mythology of a perfect Olympic is the modern invention of snobs and self-styled purists, perpetuated by sports writers---and television commentators at a loss to fill air time.

But these arbiters were often susceptible to financial enticements--- and treats

Promoters of minor track meets--- which were often held to advertise local products-- would fork over plenty to have the hottest runners of the day merely show up

When he crossed the finish line, he was a little “high” on more than joy--- having fortified himself along the road with swigs of sugared wine

Just before President Teddy Roosevelt’s daughter was to give him his medal, it was discovered that Lorz had not, after all, gone the entire distance under his own steam.

Having cramped up at about nine miles, he accepted a ride from a passing car.

There is no need to conjecture about Dora Ratjen, the German athlete who just missed a gold medal in the women’s high jump in the notorious Olympics of 1936

If you are pleased with the complaisance and attention of others to your hunours, your tastes, or your weaknesses, depend upon it, the same complaisance and attention on your part to theirs will equally please them.

be serious, gay, or even trifiling, as you find the present humor of the company; this is an attention due from every individual to the majority.

nor labor, as many people do, to give that turn to the conversation, which may supply you with an opportunity of exhibiting them.

The particular characters, the habits, the cant of one company may give merit to a word, or a gesture, which would have none at all if divested of those accidental circumstances.

Here people very commonly err; and fond of something that has entertained them in one company, and in certain circumstances, repeat it with emphasis in another, where it is either insipid, or it may be offensive, by being ill-timed or misplaced.。

Those, therefore, who flattered skillfully, said little to him of his abilities in state affairs, or at least but en passant, and as it might naturally occur. But the incense which they gave him, the smoke of which they knew would turn his head in their favor, was as a bel esprit and a poet.

his prevailing weakness was, to be thought to have a polite and happy turn to gallantry — of which he had undoubtedly less than any man living.

If they are both bad, she comforts herself that she has graces, a certain manner, a je ne sais quoi still more more engaging than beauty.

But there is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses.

If a man has a mind to be thought wiser and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people, and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it, than my enemies by endeavoring (and that to no purpose) to undeceive them.

There are little attentions, likewise, which are infinitely engaging, and which sensibly affect that degree of pride and self-love, which is inseparable from human nature, as they are unquestionable proofs of the regard and consideration which we have for the persons to whom we pay them.

Such attention to such trifles flatters self-love much more than greater thing, as it makes people think themselves almost the only objects of your thoughts and care。

and shall not grudge it if you reap the advantage

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