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One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.
Every day he worked hard in the court trying to decide which of two untrue accounts was the less untrue,
he did not realize that “white” has no more to do with a colour than “God save the King” with a god, and that it is the height of impropriety to consider what it does connote.
The dread of having to call in the troops was vivid to him; soldiers put one thing straight, but leave a dozen others crooked,
Miss Quested was only a victim, but young Heaslop was a martyr;
Why can’t I finish my duties and be gone? Why do I get headaches and puff when I walk? And all the time this to do and that to do and this to do in your way and that to do in her way, and everything sympathy and confusion and bearing one another’s burdens. Why can’t this be done and that be done in my way and they be done and I at peace? Why has anything to be done, I cannot see.
no, nothing as solid as sadness: living at half pressure expresses it best.
