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It never makes me absolutely idle, but very often inclines me as it were from mere contradiction's sake to exchange the task of the day for something which I am not obliged to do at the moment, or perhaps not at all. January 17. My knee so swelled and the weather so cold that I stayed from Court.
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me. This world, the eternally imperfect, an eternal contradiction's image and imperfect image an intoxicating joy to its imperfect creator: thus did the world once seem to me.
After all, these interruptions are not such bad things; they make a man keen of the work which he is withheld from, and differ in that point much from the indulgence of an indisposition to labour in your own mind, which increases by indulgence. Les fâcheux seldom interrupt your purpose absolutely and entirely you stick to it for contradiction's sake.
Very unhandsome conduct on the part of the Blucher while I was lauding it so profusely. It is necessary to halt and close up our files of correspondence I mean. So it is a chance if, except for contradiction's sake, or upon getting the proof-sheets, I write a line to-day at Boney.
It may be possible that some innocent words of yours may have appeared to her as cutting insinuations or taunts, referring to some former painful circumstance, forgotten or unknown by you, but sorrowfully remembered by her, or a wilful contradiction of her known opinion and known wishes, for mere contradiction's sake. I do not, however, recommend you to venture upon this practice yet.
Spottiswoode had no inclination to contradict his wife for contradiction's sake, and as he could rely on her prudence as on her other good qualities, he said, "Well, Agnes, I have no objection; Hunter of Blackfaulds is an honest man though he is poor, and he is righting himself now." The invitations were dispatched, and accepted gratefully.
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