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so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it’s such a sweet trap. Who doesn’t like
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men.
the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house be...
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did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage.
The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In
After all I’ve done for him you’d think Charley would have come to my aid, but he dislikes neurotics and he detests drunks.
Same, Charley.
Among nearly forty I didn’t see a single state that hadn’t a good word to say for itself. It seemed a little indelicate. It might be better to let visitors find out for themselves. But maybe we wouldn’t if it weren’t drawn to our attention.
