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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Evasion

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

Balzac.

Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

Lavater.