“Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.”

—  Ford Madox Ford , book The Good Soldier

Part Four, Ch. I (p.185)
The Good Soldier (1915)

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