Among working people nothing so smartens a young man and so quickly sets him on his own feet as a little traffic with the maidens; especially when he can't get his own way too easily.
"A Poor Man's House"
Stephen Sydney Reynolds
Instead of that he smartens into a manly fellow, ready at any moment to give a helping hand to anybody who wants it, and without taking any reward for it, and without thinking how poor or rich, how old or young the person may be.
"Young Knights of the Empire"
Sir Robert Baden-Powell