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Greenmantle

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
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It's a fancy type which could never really exist, any more than the Economic Man of the politicians.
Mankind has a sense of humour which stops short of the final absurdity.
There never has been, and there never could be a real Superman ...

But there might be a Superwoman.' 'You'll get into trouble, my lad, if you talk like that,' I said.
'It's true all the same.

Women have got a perilous logic which we never have, and some of the best of them don't see the joke of life like the ordinary man.

They can be far greater than men, for they can go straight to the heart of things.

There never was a man so near the divine as Joan of Arc.


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