It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.
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The great and recurrent question about abroad is, is it worth getting there.
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays -- cynical but hopeful.
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A hot bath I cry, as I sit down in it Again as I lie flat, a hot bath How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.
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