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by any such habits or regulations even
The interior Person—as we shall see later—is far too great and free to be adequately represented by any such habits or regulations, even the ‘best,’ and they really belong to the lower mind or body.
— from The Drama of Love and Death: A Study of Human Evolution and Transfiguration by Edward Carpenter

but a slender hold on recent events
True, I had taken this very journey, and at the same hour of the day, six months ago; but many things had happened since then, and an old man’s memory has but a slender hold on recent events: I sought ‘the missing link’ in vain.
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

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