Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did...
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Consequently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to ...
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Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled
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-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.
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I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shoc...
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He was not sure, but liked it. It recurred when they met suddenly or had been silent. It beckoned to him across intellect, saying, "This is all very w...
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I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.
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The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.
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The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
