It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.
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Hope Mirrlees
So fine a medicine is the will to action.
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Hope Mirrlees
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
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Hope Mirrlees
There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.
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Hope Mirrlees
But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!
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Hope Mirrlees
