"Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to……" — Ford Madox Ford
"Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness."
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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
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