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bed innocence proven single sleep slept songwriter sound
He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence
people bed accepting
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
stupid world bed
They [twin beds] are the most stupid, the most perfidious, and the most dangerous invention in the world. Shame and a curse on who thought of them.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
loaf science
To loaf is a science, to loaf is to live
desk laughing legal money night owner risks
I am laughing to think what risks you take to try to find money in a desk by night where the legal owner can never find any by day.
ease good greater impediment others terms
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ease with yourself
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
attached men-and-women scholars-and-scholarship shame suffer woman
To our shame a woman is never so much attached to us as when we suffer
defects
They must have the defects of their qualities.
fun husband love woman
A woman who has made fun of her husband can love him no more