"There's lots of pleasure in it." "Perhaps so," admitted Frank; "but I don't care for it, and, as it is against the rules, it keeps me out of trouble by not smoking." "It's against the rules to indulge in this kind of a feast, old man.
You can't be too much of a stickler for rules." "It doesn't do to be too goody-good," put in Snell, insinuatingly.
"Such rubbish doesn't go with the fellows." "I don't think any one can accuse me of playing the goody-good," said Frank, quietly.

"I like fun as well as any one, as you all know, but I do not care for cigarettes, and so I do not smoke them.

I don't wish to take any credit to myself, so I make no claim to resisting a temptation, for they are no temptation to me." "Lots of fellows smoke who do not like cigarettes," assured Sam Winslow.
"Well, I can't understand why they do so," declared Merriwell.
"They do it for fun." "I fail to see where the fun comes in.

There are enough improper things that I would like to do for me not to care about those things that are repugnant to me.

Some time ago I made up my mind never to do a thing I did not want to do, or did not give me pleasure, unless it was absolutely necessary, or was required as a courtesy to somebody else.