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But the spontaneous kindness of this reception makes me forget my weakness, makes me forget my desire for repose.
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Sumner acknowledges that the kindness of his reception helps him forget his physical weakness.
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The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
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