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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Of course just at present the church may do a confounded lot of harm. Some of you clerical gentlemen are rather too fond of talking socialism and even preaching socialism. Don't think I want to be overcritical. I admit there's no end of things to be said for a proper sort of socialism, Ruskin, and all that. We're all Socialists nowadays. Ideals excellent. But it gets misunderstood.
He only remembered that he had once been a gentleman, that if a life of honor and of self-negation can make any so he was one still. He advanced and bowed with the old serene elegance that his bow had once been famed for; and she, well used to be even overcritical in such trifles, thought, "That man has once lived in courts!"
But the forming taste of the country revels in superlatives, and if we could only have the deepest artesian well in the world sunk by the side of the tallest column in all creation, the admiring, not overcritical patriot would be happier than ever was the Athenian when he looked up at the newly erected Parthenon. I made a few miscellaneous observations which may be worth recording.
Seated beside her he turned and regarded her with disconcerting scrutiny. "Like it?" demanded Fanny, pertly. And smoothed her veil, consciously. "No." "Well, for a man who looks negligee even in evening clothes aren't you overcritical?" "I'm not criticizing your clothes. Even I can see that that hat and suit have the repressed note that means money.
But the forming taste of the country revels in superlatives, and if we could only have the deepest artesian well in the world sunk by the side of the tallest column in all creation, the admiring, not overcritical patriot would be happier than ever was the Athenian when he looked up at the newly erected Parthenon. I made a few miscellaneous observations which may be worth recording.
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