There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.
If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets __ecrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one__ closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one__ own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That__ why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.
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If it could come about that each of us were to describe his innermost secrets __ecrets which one would hesitate to tell not only to people at large, but even to one__ closest friends, nay, to fear to admit even to one__ own self - the world would be filled with such a stench that each one of us would choke to death. That__ why, speaking in parenthesis, all our social conventions and niceties are so beneficial.
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