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  1. All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity - it is to destroy it. Leave that to the mor…
  2. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes …
  3. Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
  4. Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at len…
  5. This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a …
  6. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
  7. Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of …
  8. A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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