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| 20 | 162 | "Many of my compeers, many of whom are honestly View more quotes about little">little better than barbarians, found it difficult to appreciate my taste for the niceties of life, for the tiny refinements that can so redeem the drabness of existence". |
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| 20 | 159 | "I was cast out of my own country, a steel country, faraway," it said, "as a weakling". |
| 20 | 160 | "I find that hard to believe," I said. |
| 20 | 161 | "Nonetheless, it is true," it said. |
| 20 | 162 | "Many of my compeers, many of whom are honestly little better than barbarians, found it difficult to appreciate my taste for the niceties of life, for the tiny refinements that can so redeem the drabness of existence". |
| 20 | 163 | "Such as cooking your meat?" I asked. |
| 20 | 164 | "Precisely," it said. |
| 20 | 165 | "Accordingly I was put into exile, cast weaponless, not even with combs and brushes, without even adornments, upon this world. |