“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ War is such an indefeasible and unescapable Real that the good realist must accept it rather comprehensively. To keep out of it is pure quietism, an acute moral failure to adjust. At the same time, there is an inexorability about war. It is a little unbridled for the realist's rather nice sense of purposive social control… ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. ”
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“ We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. ”
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“ War is such an indefeasible and unescapable Real that the good realist must accept it rather comprehensively. To keep out of it is pure quietism, an acute moral failure to adjust. At the same time, there is an inexorability about war. It is a little unbridled for the realist's rather nice sense of purposive social control… ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places perhaps irreparably - our life has been, we cannot in our heart of hearts imagine how it could have been different. As we look back on it, it slips in behind us in orderly array, and, with all its mistakes, acquires a sort of eternal fitness, and even, at times, of poetic glamour. ”
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“ Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ”
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“ A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him. ”
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“ We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living. ”
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