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The best men don't ask that now and don't want that." He jumped to his feet and stood over McGregor. "Men don't understand what's going on and don't care," he said. "They are too busy getting things done or going to ball games or quarrelling about politics. "And what do they know about it if they are fools enough to think? They get thrown into false notions.
I am going to give them some flesh, and living flesh, too; not the bladders of lard that they turn out. 'It's a woman bathing, isn't it? asked Sandoz. 'No; I shall put some vine leaves around her head. A Bacchante, you understand. At this Claude flew into a violent passion. 'A Bacchante? Do you want to make fools of people? Does such a thing as a Bacchante exist? A vintaging girl, eh?
This checked them a little, and ere audacity had had time to recover itself, a young man came shoving through the crowd, pushing them all right and left until he reached Caspar, and stood by his side. Now there was that about Richard Heywood to give him influence with a crowd: he was a strong man and a gentleman, and they drew back. 'De fools dink I was de tuyfel! said Caspar.
'By the immortal saints, man! you are not serious? 'The four archangels forbid! It is no concern of mine. All I say is, that my people are great fools, like the rest of the world; and have, for aught I know or care, some such intention. They won't succeed, of course; and that is all you have to care for.
He could not, however, gain credit for this assertion; for a short time afterwards, a book was published under the title of Moron anastasis, "The Resurrection of Fools," the design of which was to show "that nobody ever counterfeited folly." XXXIX. Amongst other things, people admired in him his indifference and unconcern; or, to express it in Greek, his meteoria and ablepsia.
If we did the reader would very likely be disappointed, or perhaps wearied, or perhaps convinced that these two were as great fools in the manner of their making up as they had been in the manner of their falling out.
Meadows, perhaps it would be more delicate to all parties to take him indoors than in the open street." "Oh, yes!" cried William, "it is bitter enough as it is, but that would have been worse thank you for arresting me here and now take me away and let me hide from all the world." "Fools!" said a firm voice behind the screen. "Fools!"
'Cowards, they cried, 'you came hither in an evil hour, wanting our lands, and seeking to seize our property, fools that ye were to come! Normandy is too far off and you will not easily reach it. It is of little use to run back; unless you can cross the sea at a leap, or can drink it dry, your sons and daughters are lost to you.
This very real concern about equality in danger, which seeks equality only, brings on hesitation and not resolution. Some fools may break their heads in closing in, but the remainder will fire from a distance. Not that this will cause fewer losses, far from it. Italy will never have a really firm army. The Italians are too civilized, too fine, too democratic in a certain sense of the word.
Hated by sinners, the mock of fools, disliked by the envious, abandoned by the weak, what can he do but return to God, weary with having labored in vain, in sorrow at having accomplished nothing? The world remains in all its vileness and in all its hatefulness; this is what men call, 'the triumph of good sense over enthusiasm." Or Jacques himself, and his doctrine
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