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Excerpt from an air conditioner manual

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De-Icing Function
* When ice forms on the heat exchanger in the outdoor unit during HEAT operation, an automatic de-icer provides heat for about 5 to 10 minutes to remove the ice. During de-icing, the inside and outside fans stop operating.
* After de-icing is completed, the unit automatically resumes operation in the HEAT mode.
Heating Efficiency
*

He has suppressed a natural fellow feeling with the original doubt he suppressed.

It may be that slavery, like politics, anticipated agriculture...

THE FANATIC is someone who has suppressed reasonable doubt about what he wants to accept.

Every reader is a Lady of Shallot, who, secluded in his secret chamber, forgets the hours, as he sits watching the endless procession of human thought and passion and action, as it passes, motley and tumultuous, across the gleaming mirror of literature.

To train our taste is to increase our capacity for pleasure

Cynicism of Norman Douglas


Oriental polygamy, carried on under Western conditions of life, would be a terrible drain on a man’s income, and a great responsibility as well. Absurd, nevertheless, to suggest that our adult males are living monogamous lives; if one or two are doing so, it means that they lack either the moral grit or the physical outfit, or both. They are polygamists; but their polygamy is practiced on inexpensive lines and with a minimum of personal responsibility. Our European rule runs to the effect that a man’s mistresses are to be kept by their husbands.
This is an advance on Eastern methods.

even after the seemingly last flutter of the tired wings, there is yet another twitch, and another faint convulsion.

Efter regn kommer solsken

Every Saint has a past, every Sinner has a future

You are consistently on my mind. It is a painful experience.