Vulgar words in A Preface to Politics (Page 1)
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"You can go through contemporary life," writes Wells, "fudging and evading, indulging and slacking, never really hungry nor frightened nor passionately stirred, your highest moment a mere sentimental orgasm, and your first real contact with primary and elementary necessities the sweat of your death-bed."
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But they have different functions, and it is unjust to damn one because he hasn't the virtues of the other.
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I thought of Aristotle, who denied the existence of a mule because it was neither a horse nor an ass.