Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas and like talking. Leave us alone for any length of time, and we start filling the void with supernatural creatures.
Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one__ hands free of another man__ throat, free of one__ own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.I forget who said it and I no longer care.
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Machineries of reason, machineries of conduct, machineries of virtue. The machine that regulates instinct, keeps one__ hands free of another man__ throat, free of one__ own. These machines have all, as someone said, gone too long in the elements. Gummed now, rusted, bloodless.I forget who said it and I no longer care.
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