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She lived, half-ill, in an ugly, not too comfortable cottage, as far as the moon from any world she understood, in a solitude acidulated by Melora Meigs. No pictures, no music, no plays, no talk and this, the whole year round. Would you like it yourselves, you would-be savages with Adirondack guides? Well: that was one of life's little stupidities.
The same badinage dominates their ever-changing jargon; they seek for oddity in their toilette, glory in repeating the stupidities of such and such actor who is in fashion, and commence operations, it matters not with whom, with contempt and impertinence, in order to have, as it were, the first move in the game; but, woe betide him who does not know how to take a blow on one cheek for the sake of rendering two.
Only the sight of it is obscured by all those stupidities and condescensions to rule-of-thumb that he attacks so furiously. Those are the impediments that he would clear away, and he acknowledges that they stand between him and his own sight of beauty.
"I wouldn't put it at a very great distance." "But think of all the confusions of the world!" "Confusions merely. The world is just a muddle of states and religions and theories and stupidities. There are great lumps of disorderly strength in it, but as a whole it is a weak world. It goes on by habit. There's no great idea in possession and the only possible great idea is this one.
Loskiel, who desire advancement every time that heaven interposes to save them from their own stupidities! Well, well, let it go, sir! It is on a different matter that I have summoned you here a very different business, Mr. Loskiel one which I do not thoroughly comprehend.
‘A wise man should avoid married life, as though it were a burning pit of live coals.’ Dhammika Sutta. ‘Marriage is the great mistake that wipes out the smaller stupidities of Love.’ SCHOPENHAUER.
I betook myself to Somel one day, carefully not taking Ellador. I did not mind seeming foolish to Somel she was used to it. "I want a chapter of explanation," I told her. "You know my stupidities by heart, and I do not want to show them to Ellador she thinks me so wise!" She smiled delightedly. "It is beautiful to see," she told me, "this new wonderful love between you.
To-day also occurred another of my lama's conspicuous stupidities; after asking the road to a set of tents where dwelt friends of his own, he suddenly left the road and began the ascent of a steep hill. I asked where he was going. He said to the tents.
You will not find a single woman, unless you can suppose one absolutely ignorant, who is not able to gauge exactly the degree of familiarity she ought to permit. Those who complain that their lovers do not come up to the mark do not affect me in the least. Inquire into the reason, and you will perceive that their stupidities, their imprudences are the cause.
"Very well," said the young man, "and now, Jochem, be very cautious and thoughtful all the time in the way you handle the matter, for we are no longer in dear Suabia, but out among the Saxons and Franks." "The miserable fellows!" exclaimed old Jochem. "Faith, they have long talked about Suabian stupidities! They shall see that a Suabian can be a sly bird too when it is necessary."
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