Man is full of desires he loves only those who can satisfy them all. 'This man is a good mathematician,' someone will say. But I have no concern for mathematics he would take me for a proposition. 'That one is a good soldier.' He would take me for a besieged town. I need, that is to say, a decent man who can accommodate himself to all my desires in a general sort of way.
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