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Would it be better to shut one’s eyes to the truth?

Jealousy is a despicable thing, but there's a deal of it floating about in the world, and one's a fool to shut one's eyes to it.

It was not proper to shut one's eyes to such signs, and Prince Yeremi especially had not that habit.

But it is useless to shut one's eyes to the fact that money nowadays will do much.

It is the place of all others to read Theocritus, 'mid bowers dipping their leaves into plashing fountains, to eat fruit, listen to distant music, blow languid wreaths of perfumed smoke, and shut one's eyes to have visions of fair women.