While his short-term prospects were immeasurably improved, the outlook remained uncertain.
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that he was buckling under the responsibility of it, the demands it made, the appeals it attracted, the decisions it entailed; that he was much more overawed than glad.
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Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things
Virgil, Georgics, Book 2
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How easy it was to capitalise on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
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There was an air of joylessness in every news report he watched. The national debt was so huge that it was difficult to comprehend
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I’m happy where I am. I just want to get on with work and be on my own for a bit
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her secure place of retreat in the cloistered world in which she had grown up, whose values she simultaneously despised and espoused
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if you don’t mind me speaking frankly
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That’s not how I’d have phrased it, but bluntly, yes