At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

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Life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is t.

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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

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