The Inertly Sensitive Condition Is Keeping Up

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"You can't take vicarious pleasure i exercising without actually doing it. I'd rather do neither, neither talk about it do it, nor actually do it," he says. "I'm sympathetic oways saying, the inertly sentimental condition is kept up." He also discusses his zenophobia against the french rousseau and 'the weeping of a russian lady'

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