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Edward Carpenter

"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."

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"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."

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"Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society."
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"Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought."
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"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
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"Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men."
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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
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"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
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"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
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"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
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"The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden."
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"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."
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