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"Man is free, his will is free, his choice, his judgments, his capacity for thought, and his power to profit by it are all as free as air, just so long as he remembers that they are his own no longer. When he forgets that he is his own master, absolutely and entirely, he becomes another man's slave.
She spoke in a tone of sleepy indifference; but as soon as Orion opposed her and begged her to keep Mary at home, she grew more lively, and looking him wrathfully in the face exclaimed: "Can you wish that? How can you ask me?" and she went on in repining lamentation: "Everything is changed nowadays. Old age no longer forgets; it is youth that has a short memory.
You don't know what responsibility you take, or what effect you may produce. I don't say that it's the worst of all possible worlds, but it is such that each of us had best go his own way, and keep clear of the others. When one forgets that safe rule, and mixes with his kind, only harm seems to come of it." "If that is so, I might better have staid at home now.
Angry or simply sad but certainly disillusioned he wanders about and meets the girl one afternoon and under the sway of a strong feeling forgets his shyness. This is no supposition. It is a fact. There was such a meeting in which the shyness must have perished before we don't know what encouragement, or in the community of mood made apparent by some casual word.
"We haven't a line long enough," answered the Starost sleepily. "We shall have to buy one in the town." "Why did you not tell Vassilissa? She would have let me know. I go into the town every week, and would have brought a line long ago." "I have told her, but she forgets, or says it is not worth while to bother the Mistress about it." Tatiana Markovna made a knot in her handkerchief.
"He might be easy on that score: I hate the man, and his cold formalities. He is ever fancying that we princes are intent on the affairs of state, and forgets that we are mortal and that youth is the age for the bower, not the council. My precious Calderon, life would be dull without thee: how I rejoice at thy return, thou best inventor of pleasure that satiety ever prayed for!
The Pere de la Chaise knew the bottom of my heart; he knew, as an intelligent man, how to reconcile religion with nature; and when duty brings me to the foot of his tribunal, as a humble Christian, he never forgets that royalty, cannot be long on its knees, and he accompanies with his attentions and with deference the religious commands which he is bound to impose on me."
"You need not look downcast; it is his custom to divide his instructions." But La Mothe had another objection, and one so obvious that he marvelled how it had escaped Commines' notice. "One thing the King forgets. To enter Amboise as a stranger will be impossible. Riding behind us there are twelve good reasons why I should be recognized." "Do you take us for fools?" retorted Commines.
Richard, on the other hand, tore off his things and threw them about anyhow. He then wrapped himself in his dressing-gown, and sat down and smoked till his brother was ready. "He is the very devil, that Worse!" said the attaché, leaning back in the armchair; "but it does me good to hear any one speak out his mind so plainly." "He is too violent; he forgets conventionalities."
The time during which the seed lies underground is long so long indeed that one forgets that there is any danger of its sprouting. But once its shoot shows up above the surface, it grows and grows so fast, there is no time to cover it up, neither with skirt, nor body, nor even life itself. I will try to think of it no more, but sit quiet passive and callous let the crash come when it may.
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