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“Have you never experienced it, that dread of letting yourself be seen as you are!”
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“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”
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“Your eggs of advice ain't rotten like some folks'.”
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“The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.”
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“The Irish are masters at the language of concealment.”
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“... a fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one ... ”
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“... true freedom is the freedom to consider others as well as ourselves, knowing that it is nothing less than enlightened self-interest to do so.”
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“... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled”