Crossword-Solution: WEAKENER 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The constant looking backward to what might have been, instead of forward to what may be, is a great weakener of self-confidence.

The tremors of Dryden, after having written an Ode, a circumstance tradition has accidentally handed down, were not unusual with him; in the preface to his Tales he tells us, that in translating Homer he found greater pleasure than in Virgil; but it was not a pleasure without pain; the _continual agitation of the spirits_ must needs be a weakener to any constitution, especially in age, and many pauses are required for refreshment betwixt the heats.

Liveryman Dinan, who was put on the stand after this episode, repeated his former statements regarding the hiring of the white horse and buggy by Coughlin, and added, as something new, that, after he had unbosomed himself to Captain Schaack, the detective, meeting him on the street, had remarked to him: "I'd hate to trust you with anything; you're a clear case of weakener." INSIDE OF CAMP TWENTY.