The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will … - Brenda Shoshanna

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You and I have formerly seen warm debates and high political passions. But gentlemen of different politics would then speak to each other and separate the business of the Senate from that of society. It is not so now. Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats. This may do for young men with whom passion is enjoyment. But it is afflicting to peaceable minds. Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Brenda Shoshanna

The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.

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