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divine and human and brutal intelligences and hallows
I believe this kind of sensibility may be entirely resolved into the acuteness of bodily sense of which I have been speaking, associated with love, love I mean in its infinite and holy functions, as it embraces divine and human and brutal intelligences, and hallows the physical perception of external objects by association, gratitude, veneration, and other pure feelings of our moral nature.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

doing an honorable American business in an honorable
All I have to say is that you look to me like sane, intelligent men—just the sort of men that I meet everywhere in the ordinary walks of life, doing an honorable American business in an honorable American way.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser


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