Sentence example with the word 'mainsprings'

mainsprings

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The wealth and luxury of successive generations, the monotonous routine of life, the separation of the educated class from the higher work of the world, have produced their enervating and paralysing effect on the mainsprings of poetic and imaginative feeling.   [Please select]

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We see laws, theoretically good, practically perverted, and selfishness and egotism the mainsprings of life; we see energies misdirected, and art corrupted.   [Please select]

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XIII I am not strong enough in the science of psychology to understand the origin of laughter and to get into touch with the mainsprings of gaiety.   [Please select]

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