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giant journalism motion
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pygmy hatreds.
came giant power thus
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pygmies, came into the world
hatred giants journalism
Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
liberty libertarian giants
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, and didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
bad believe hear
Believe anything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad
certain leisure needs position wit
Wit needs leisure, and certain inequalities of position
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
exist ideas moral seen society upright
It is not enough to be an upright man, we must be seen to be one; society does not exist on moral ideas only
behind faces society
If we all said people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.
hatred inspires pity weakness
Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
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
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