Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
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My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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But that was how it was in a workaday Britain generally addicted to merit, rather than one increasingly enslaved to notions of entitlement. In the deepest part of themselves, all classes now are devoted to leisure, as if proper and difficult occupation has become one of the enemies of modern selfhood. The secret of being miserable, ... is to have leisure to bother whether you are happy or not.
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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
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