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Weymouth Sands

Book by John Cowper Powys · 8 quotes · Aesthetic, Children, Cowardice

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“The mind of a teacher of Latin and a reader of Greek is a queer thing. No sooner had Magnus in his justifiable indignation at her teasing ways imagined himself ravishing Curly by force in her own maiden bed, than such a blind passion of pure love for her swept over him that the blood rushed to his head and he squeezed his bony hands together.”

Passion Pure Love Latin Teacher

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“It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born.”

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“But what I've got to do if I'm to keep any self-respect at all," he thought, rising stiffly from the bench, while his teeth chattered, "is to accept my cowardice, take it all for granted, and think of myself as a nervous insignificant book-worm, who can't do anything but teach Latin and be petted by Miss Le Fleau!”

Self Respect Cowardice

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“Children's aesthetic sense is a deep half-animal feeling and when it is outraged it leaves a wound behind it that never quite heals up.”

Children Aesthetic

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“Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs.”

Philosopher Legs Lechery

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“Mr. Gaul took off his spectacles, a gesture of his which always accompanied the reception of anything startling. But he only twisted them in his hands and replaced them carefully. Had the event been more personally arresting he would have cleaned them with his coat-sleeve. Confronted by a shipwreck he might even have rubbed them against his trousers.”

Spectacles Gesture

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“His neck as he stretched it upwards and backwards, felt like the neck of an antediluvian tortoise.”

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“It was as if cowslips and cow-droppings mingled with sea-horses and cowry-shells.”

Sea Horses Cowslips

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