And the others too were beginning to remark in Swann that abnormal, excessive, shameful and deserved senescence of bachelors, of all those for whom it seems that the great day which knows no morrow must be longer than for other men, since for them it is a void of promise, and from its dawn the moments steadily accumulate without any subsequent partition among offspring.
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
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The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
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