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"The age of independent travel is drawing to an end," said E.M. Forster back in 1920, when it had been increasingly clear for deca ...
Paper is soft and ink is fluid; it might be better if some pages of this chronicle could be written on chips of granite at the poi ...
... it is only after years and years that you can speak of penury in the midst of opulence, of hunger in the midst of almost sinfu ...
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, b ...
He who constantly swims in the ocean loves dry land.
We old bachelors smell like dogs, do we? So be it. But I must take issue with your claim that doctors who treat female illnesses a ...
People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a st ...
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist--a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimi ...
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