Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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What matter to human hearts that break...
...more aesthetic province of dress and manners. The theory that manners are the exponents of the feelings, and that the good heart shows itself in good manners, is a delusion of the past. We are beyond such sentimentalism. The materialism of the present age declares that manners are to human feelings as words are to the human intellect...
...From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story we accept the situation: there is nothing to get hold of. How can we hope to know a character that never existed in the author's mind as a human, breathing creature...
...laughed in the most astonishing way, and confessed that she had never yet been afflicted by the deadly disease which her husband had imputed to her. And then I knew that Alfred had been guilty of the basest prevarication. I almost wept over his fault; my confidence in human...
...Human hearts from youth akin...