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Sometimes it's great fun to be silly, like children playing statues and dying of laughter. And sometimes being silly breaks the even pace and lets you get a new start.
from the book "" by John Steinbeck
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Hidden from mankind, forgotten by himself, or buried so deeply under a sculptured and ornamented pile of ostentatious deeds that his daily life could take no note of it, there may have lurked some evil and unsightly thing. Nay, we could almost venture to say, further, that a daily guilt might have been acted by him, continually renewed, and reddening forth afresh, like the miraculous blood-stain of a murder, without his necessarily and at every moment being aware of it.
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Ethics is inescapable.
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We have left the realm of comprehension in our vain effort to grasp the scale of the universe; so it must ever be, sooner rather than later.
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It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.
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Let me know when you begin the new tea, and the new white wine. My present elegancies have not yet made me indifferent to such matters. I am still a cat if I see a mouse.
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The fashion just now is a roman catholic frame of mind with an agnostic conscience: you get the medieval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.
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Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to take from him, his brain, have made that tool singularly competent.
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He found himself now in the agreeable situation of being able to do what was best for others and at the same time what was convenient to himself.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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