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" But marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "
Varia. - - Page 21
by Agnes Repplier - 1897 - 232 pages
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The Melbourne Review, Volume 5

1880 - 470 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Ludgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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Fernshawe. Sketches in Prose and Verse

Arthur Patchett Martin - 1885 - 262 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1890 - 300 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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Virginibus Puerisque: And Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1893 - 250 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 380 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish,* and...undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.' It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson: Virginibus puerisque ...

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 388 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 13

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - 1895 - 380 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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The Living Age, Volume 215

American periodicals - 1897 - 1016 pages
...marriage a man becomes slack and selfish, "and undergoes a fatty degenLIVltfG AOE. VOL. XVI. 812 eration of his moral being." Which is precisely the lesson thundered at us very unpleasantly by Mr. Rudyard Kipling in "The Gadsbys." Yon may carve it on his tomhstone, you may cut it on his card, That...
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Virginibus Puerisque: And Other Papers

Robert Louis Stevenson - Short stories, English - 1901 - 302 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirits of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. It is not only when Lydgate misallies himself with Rosamond Vincy, but when Ladislaw marries above...
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The Wisdom of Robert Louis Stevenson: Collected and Arranged from His Writings

Robert Louis Stevenson - 1906 - 316 pages
...marriage, if comfortable, is not at all heroic. It certainly narrows and damps the spirit of generous men. In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. . . . The air of the fireside withers out all the fire wildMar riage— its Beneficent Effects Its...
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