Instead of being the lost soul of a loner drifting aimlessly having a peripatetic wind, I'm now preferring something with more bite to it. As experience is just nature cruel way of giving the exams first followed by their lessons; you eventually reach a point where silence can no longer be contained no matter the cost.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016
MANSUETUDE - Tuesday, December 06, 2016
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Definitions for mansuetude
mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
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Citations for mansuetude
You are safe, dear old man, you are safe, temporarily, in the mansuetude of our care, Julie said. The what? The mansuetude that is to say mild gentleness of our care.Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father, 1975
For indeed, it is possible to attain a state of divine mansuetude that nothing dismays and nothing surprises, just as one in love might, after many years, arrive at a sublime tranquillity of the sentiments, sure of their force and durability, through constant experience of their pleasures and pains.Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), The Wrong Side of Paris, translated by Jordan Stump, 2003
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