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It is only the extreme immoderation, and indeed technical impossibility, of the Treaty's demands which may save the situation in the long-run. The Treaty strikes at Germany's coal supply in four ways: While the administration of this district is vested for fifteen years in the League of Nations, it is to be observed that the mines are ceded to France absolutely.
"I have lost my appetite," the Maccabee said carelessly. "Saddle and let us ride on." At his words, a picture of his own comfortable progress to Jerusalem compared to her long foot-weary tramp for days over the inhospitable hills appeared to him. The instant impulse did not permit himself to argue the immoderation of his care of her. Julian clung to his side until they were ready to depart.
Every one is wary and discreet in confession, but men ought to be so in action. I wish that this excessive license of mine, may draw men to freedom above these timorous and mincing pretended virtues, sprung from our imperfections, and that at the expense of my immoderation, I may reduce them to reason.
This immoderation of her clothes, the fright she was in so nervous at first that she could hardly stand became her very ill. She was quite white in the face, with solemn black eyes, glazed and expressionless; her little hands stuck out from her sides like a puppet's. Handsome as no doubt she was, she looked a doll beside the tall Jehane, who could have dandled her comfortably on her knee.
There has been no question about the wisdom of being temperate and industrious and honest and kind; and the folly of immoderation and laziness and chicanery and meanness is so well known that a geometrical proposition has not been more definitely proved.
The other way in which avarice may involve immoderation is in interior affection.... These words must not be taken to condemn the acquisition of large fortunes by capitalists, which is very often necessary in order that the natural resources of a country may be properly exploited.
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