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... as I get older, I find myself insisting on my right to be philosophically sloppy.
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand philosophy
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand ignorance kindness knowledge living wisdom
The human race is all the same when it comes to romantic relations,' said the Major. 'A startling absence of impulse control combined with complete myopia.
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand humor love romance
He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making bli…
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He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his hea…
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand relationships
I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop …
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand aging family inevitability pessimism relationships
... I tell myself it does not matter what one reads--favorite authors, particular themes--as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand books reading
War does have a way of interfering with one's most closely held desires.
Helen Simonson The Summer Before the War war
Most of all I remember that what begins with drums and fife, flags and bunting, becomes too swiftly a long and grey winter of the spirit.
Helen Simonson The Summer Before the War war
You are a wise man, Major, and I will consider your advice with great care — and humility." He finished his tea and rose from the table to go to his room. "But I must ask you, do y…
Helen Simonson Major Pettigrew's Last Stand humor love women

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A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
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