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Manifold would have forgotten every thing about the dinner had he not from time to time been reminded of it by his companion. "Manifold, we will have a great day on Thursday." "Great!" exclaimed Manifold, who in addition to his other stupidities, was as deaf as a post; "great eh? What size will it be?" "What size will it be? Why, confound it, man, don't you know what I'm saying?"
The curate and his wife talked softly all the way back to the house. "Do you really think," said Helen, "that every fault one has ever committed will one day be trumpeted out to the universe?" "That were hardly worth the while of the universe," answered her husband. "Such an age-long howling of evil stupidities would be enough to turn its brain with ennui and disgust.
And I was just as mad and ready to shriek at them 'Blind! Blind! Blind! I was losing half a day for nothing over their stupidities. "Then the Dummkopfen began to enter it up on their official blotters. That seemed to take forever too. I was nearly exhausted. They solemnly wrote me down as blind in one eye and cannot see out of it.
But at the same time, if drink were taken away before the causes of drink were removed, there would be an appalling increase in suicide in insanity, in the general total of human misery. For while drink retards the growth of intelligent effort to end the stupidities in the social system, does it not also help men and women to bear the consequences of those stupidities?
Does Jove indeed laugh at lover's perjuries? Even more at their stupidities, perhaps! For they really were stupid! Looking on, we can see so plainly what they should have seen, and didn't.
"Will you stop your stupidities?" said the Captain's wife to him. "You see the young man is fatigued by the journey; he has something else to do besides answering you. Hold your hands better! And you my dear sir," continued she, turning to me, "do not be too much afflicted that you are thrust into our little town; you are not the first, and will not be the last.
Priests, schools of thought, political schemers, leaders of men, have always slipped into the error of assuming that they can think out the whole or at any rate completely think out definite parts of the purpose and future of man, clearly and finally; they have set themselves to legislate and construct on that assumption, and, experiencing the perplexing obduracy and evasions of reality, they have taken to dogma, persecution, training, pruning, secretive education; and all the stupidities of self-sufficient energy.
I suppose she had her ladyhood limitations, her female fears of etiquette and convention, but she did not let them hamper the wild and splendid generosity with which Clemens rebelled against the social stupidities and cruelties.
He suffers more than most of us from the spectacle of the world of to-day, because he has the constructive imagination which can place alongside of that chaos of cupidities and stupidities a vision of a rational world-order which seems easily attainable if only some malignant spell could be lifted from the spirit of man.
"My dear sir, you must really excuse me!" said Petitot nervously " I am quite unable to enter into any sort of discussion with you on these things! Please recollect that my life as a lawyer, depends entirely on men's stupidities and hypocrisies, if they all entertained your views I should have to beg in the streets, or seek another profession.
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