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Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it ...more

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In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something ...more

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One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

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The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute before. She was the sort of person, Tommy thought, who...more

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Mrs. Baker's social manner was almost robotlike in its perfection. All her comments and remarks were natural, normal, everyday currency, but one had a...more