A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.[Tel homme a passé sa vie au milieu des grands de la terre qui n’étaient pour lui que d’ennuyeux parents ou de fastidieuses connaissances, parce qu’une habitude contractée dès le berceau les avait dépouillés à ses yeux de tout prestige.]
Source:Part Two, Chapter Two, Vol. IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (1921/1922)
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