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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Extracts from Amiel’s Journal: Duty

By Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

Translation of Mary Augusta Ward

DUTY has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world while at the same time detaching us from it.