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5364409
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A man's books are very much himself.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society--much.
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One's friends ought to believe that one is a gentleman. Automatically. That is what makes one and them in harmony. Probably your friends are your friends because they look at situations automatically as you look at them...
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Ford Madox Ford |
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No, the essence of prayer is volition, so the essence of blasphemy is volition. She
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Ford Madox Ford |
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Christ was a sort of an Englishman, and Englishmen did not, as a rule, refuse to do their jobs .
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She had suddenly a clear view of him as a man extraordinarily clear-sighted in the affairs of others, in great affairs, but in his own so simple as to be almost a baby. And gentle! And extraordinarily unselfish. He didn't betray one thought of self-interest... not one.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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f59a668
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But charity begins surely with the char!
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Ford Madox Ford |
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An Englishman's duty is to secure for himself for ever reasonable clothing, a clean shirt a day, a couple of mutton-chops grilled without condiments, two floury potatoes, an apple-pie with a piece of Stilton and pulled bread, a pint of Club Medoc, a clean room, in the winter a good fire in the grate, a comfortable armchair, a comfortable woman to see that all these were prepared for you, to keep you warm in bed and to brush your bowler and ..
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She at least was broad-minded, and moreover she understood the workings of the human heart. It was creditable for a man to ruin himself for the object of his affections. But this at least she found exaggerated.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He could not imagine why anyone should dislike Marie Antoinette. Yet very likely she was dislikeable. The French, who were sensible people, had cut her head off, so they presumably disliked her . .
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Ford Madox Ford |
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bdad45a
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The rocks would be there a million years after the light went for the last time out.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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993a65a
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Dziwna to byla przyjazn, ale dziwnosc przyjazni czesto gwarantuje jej trwalosc.
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in-polish
parade-s-end
some-do-not
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Ford Madox Ford |
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036487f
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Czlowiek nie musi zyc wsrod metow spoleczenstwa, aby nie uslyszec nic o metach towarzystwa.
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some-do-not
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Ford Madox Ford |
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e7aaa15
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Chodz, napijemy sie ginu. Oto prawdziwa odpowiedz na wszystkie parszywe problemy.
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general-campion
gin
parade-s-end
some-do-not
problems
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though no man can choose the land of his birth or his ancestry, he can, if he have industry and determination, so watch over himself as materially to modify his automatic habits--
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Ford Madox Ford |
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4ddac74
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It enhanced his views of strictly respectable humanity. They blackmailed you with lamentable and pathetic tales and then did the dirty on you. He said
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Ford Madox Ford |
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524f5dd
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Sylvia was a lady and would not allow herself really to care for the person in the world for whom it would be least decent of her to care...But
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Ford Madox Ford |
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she had always considered that, far from the world of Ealing and its county councillors who over-ate and neighed like stallions, there were bright colonies of beings, chaste, beautiful in thought, altruist and circumspect. And, till that moment, she had imagined
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Ford Madox Ford |
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600effd
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The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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f4e89a1
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That he knew marked him off as belonging to the sentimental branch of humanity. He couldn't help it: Stoic or Epicurean: Caliph in the harem or Dervish desiccating in the sand: one or the other you must be. And his desire was to be a saint of the Anglican variety... as his mother had been, without convent, ritual, vows, or miracles to be performed by your relics! That sainthood, truly, the Foreign Legion might give you... The desire of ever..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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Then," Father Consett said, "if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner." "It isn't," Sylvia said. "To know everything about a person is to be bored... bored... bored!"
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Ford Madox Ford |
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2b383b5
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I like the slow, smooth roll of the great big trains--and they are the best trains in the world! I like being drawn through the green country and looking at it through the clear glass of the great windows. Though, of course, the country isn't really green. The sun shines, the earth is blood red and purple and red and green and red. And the oxen in the ploughlands are bright varnished brown and black and blackish purple; and the peasants are..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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1a0d908
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Though I believe you're a good lad. But you're the sort of fellow to set a whole division by the ears... A regular... what's 'is name? A regular Dreyfus!" "Did you think Dreyfus was guilty?" Tietjens asked. "Hang it," the General said, "he was worse than guilty--the sort of fellow you couldn't believe in and yet couldn't prove anything against. The curse of the world..."
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Ford Madox Ford |
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54c0ff0
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But why was he born to be a sort of lonely buffalo: outside the herd? Not artist: not soldier: not bureaucrat: not certainly indispensable anywhere: apparently not even sound in the eyes of these dim-minded specialists... An exact observer...
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Ford Madox Ford |
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8fe05c7
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It would be restful to serve, if only as a slave, people who saw clearly, coldly, straight, not obliquely and with hypocrisy only, such things as should deviously conduce to the standard of comfort of hogs and to lecheries winked at...He
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Ford Madox Ford |
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f0edb98
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Although Tietjens hated golf as he hated any occupation that was of a competitive nature, he could engross himself in the mathematics of trajectories when
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Ford Madox Ford |
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8326a10
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And Tietjens, who hated no man, in face of this simple-minded and agreeable schoolboy type of fellow, fell to wondering why it was that humanity that was next to always agreeable in its units was, as a mass, a phenomenon so hideous. You look at a dozen men, each of them not by any means detestable and not uninteresting: for each of them would have technical details of their affairs to impart: you formed them into a Government or a club, and..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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d21735e
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Of course Christopher would cultivate an English accent: to show that he was an English country gentleman. And he would speak correctly - to show that an English Tory can do anything in the world if he wants to . . .
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Ford Madox Ford |
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59c4cf3
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How was it possible that the most honourable man she knew should be so overwhelmed by foul and baseless rumours? It made you suspect that honour had, in itself, a quality of the evil eye . . .
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Ford Madox Ford |
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he invited Sylvia to dine with him somewhere where they were going to have something fabulous and very nasty at about two guineas the ounce on the menu. Something like that! And during dinner Sir John had entertained her by singing the praises of her husband. He said that Tietjens was much too great a gentleman to be wasted on the old-furniture trade: that was why he hadn't persisted. But he sent by Sylvia a message to the effect that if ev..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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1300dfb
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Ruggles told my father what he did because it is not a good thing to belong to the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries in the twentieth. Or really, because it is not good to have taken one's public-school's ethical system seriously. I am really, sir, the English public schoolboy. That's an eighteenth-century product. What with
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Ford Madox Ford |
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d5a9b51
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It pleased Tietjens to think that his children would be well provided for if he were killed. A nice, silent, capable man who usually looked into the distance rather abstractedly when he talked. He was killed two months later, cleanly, by a bullet.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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44c75b9
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What did we want with an Empire! It
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Ford Madox Ford |
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4fd6e7c
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I DON'T KNOW how it is best to put this thing down - whether it would be better to try and tell the story from the beginning, as if it were a story; or whether to tell it from this distance of time, as it reached me from the lips of Leonora or from those of Edward himself.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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145c7f8
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When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To
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Ford Madox Ford |
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92eb28d
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A! Te wojne bedzie warto zobaczyc... Zadnego pijanego rzucania sie do gardel bandytow-imbecyli... - Moja matka by zwariowala! - powiedziala Sylwia. - Bynajmniej - odparl. - To ja podnieci, o ile dozyje.
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war
excite
parade-s-end
some-do-not
sylvia-tietjens
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Ford Madox Ford |
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5d6060a
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I don't know. I know nothing. I am very tired.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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6892c79
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the voice of M. Schontz would go on and on under its breath like that of an unclean priest reciting from his breviary in the corner of a railway-carriage.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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52db7e6
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It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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dd9ee18
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It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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You and I are like two people . . ." He paused and began again more quickly: "Do you know these soap advertisement signs that read differently from several angles? As you come up to them you read 'Monkey's Soap'; if you look back when you've passed it's 'Needs no Rinsing.' . . . You and I are standing at different angles and though we both look at the same thing we read different messages. Perhaps if we stood side by side we should see yet ..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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a64016a
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The beastliness of human nature is always pretty normal. We lie and betray and are wanting in imagination and deceive ourselves, always, at about the same rate. In peace and in war! But, somewhere in that view there are enormous bodies of men...If you got a still more extended range of view over this whole front you'd have still more enormous bodies of men...Seven to ten million...All moving towards places towards which they desperately don..
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Ford Madox Ford |
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4b85652
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nulla dies felix--call no day fortunate till it be ended.
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Ford Madox Ford |
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043411d
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Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
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Ford Madox Ford |