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- personal psychology (Roger W. Smith observations re)
- personal reminiscences of Roger W. Smith
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- Pierre de Ronsard (16th century French poet)
- Pitirim A. Sorokin (sociologist & social philosopher)
- political correctness (PC)
- politics
- public morality
- publications (bibliography) of Roger W. Smith
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- reading and readers
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- relationships (general comments re)
- religion
- Samuel Johnson
- Scholastic Search magazine – articles by Roger W. Smith
- self-help
- Shakespeare
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- social engineering
- Theodore Dreiser
- Thomas Wolfe
- Thoreau
- Tolstoy
- tributes (written by Roger W. Smith)
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- Walt Whitman
- whaling (19th century accounts of)
- William Blake
- work and the working life
- writing (the craft of writing; good vs. bad writing; my training, experience, and lessons re same)
- writing as it relates to my blog posts and readers' sensitivities
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- A. M. Rosenthal (NY Times Managing Editor & columnist)
- Alan Smith
- Alan W. Smith
- Alan W. Smith (Roger W. Smith's father)
- Alan Wright Smith
- Annie C. Hart
- Annie Congdon Hart
- Annie Handy
- Arabella F. Swift
- Bill Dalzell
- Caleb Congdon
- Canton High School, Canton, MA
- Carl Nielsen
- Charles Dickens
- Donald J. Trump
- Donald Trump
- Edward Marshall Hart
- Elinor C. Handy
- Elinor Congdon Handy
- Elinor H. Smith
- Elinor Handy
- Elinor Handy Smith
- Elinor Handy Smith (Roger W. Smith's mother)
- Elinor Smith
- Elizabeth F. Hewins
- Elizabeth Frances Hewins
- Esther Whittredge
- Florence Hart
- Florence Norman
- George C. Smith
- George Caldwell Smith
- George Colwell Smith
- George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four
- Gregory Gillespie
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Miller
- Henry T. Handy
- Henry Thomas Handy
- Jane Gilchrist
- Jennie H. Wright
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- John Coffee
- John Congdon Hart
- John M. Coffee
- Juan Ramón Jiménez (Spanish poet)
- Liberal Religious Youth
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- Pitirim A. Sorokin
- Pitirim Sorokin
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- Robert W. Tighe
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- Roger W. Smith
- Samuel Johnson
- T. Gordon Smith
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- Walt Whitman
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- William S. Dalzell
- William Sage Dalzell
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Tag Archives: Roger Smith
the ABUSE of bad words
Pee. Shit. Fart. Fuck. I recently went to a doctor for a checkup. He asked me how frequently I urinated. He cautioned me, “Don’t drink water in the evening and before you go to bed. If you … Continue reading
preparing for a trip; advice from a travel maven
In the summer of 2016, I went on a trip with a friend to Spain. I was frantically trying to get ready at the last minute, to make sure I had done everything I intended to do … Continue reading
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on poverty
“In civilised society, personal merit will not serve you so much as money will. Sir, you may make the experiment. Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see … Continue reading
hatred that feeds a psychic need
It has a life of its own. Feeds on itself. I have seen it, depressingly, in my own life. Where the hatred is or was directed at me. It is a fire which smolders and then rages, … Continue reading
On Friendships: Forming, Preserving, and (Sometimes) Knowing When to End Them
“For the rest, what we commonly call friends and friendships, are nothing but acquaintance and familiarities, either occasionally contracted, or upon some design, by means of which there happens some little intercourse betwixt our souls. But in the … Continue reading →