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Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.
Discussions should always be held just before going to bed, your rear protected by sleep. How painful, after an intellectual conversation, to have to go about with your mind so stirred up.
Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern
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- Thomas Mann
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- Approximate author period: c. 1915 AD · modern
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