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Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

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The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life…
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane
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