This was, with a further sad irony, the only period in which Daumier, having toiled all his life to make a meagre living and now almost blind, managed to fulfil the conventional role of the fine artist far removed from the moral hurly-burly and commercial exigencies of the city.

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This seems to have led him to divide almost everybody into friends and foes, and to draw rigid lines between good and evil in virtually all matters, commercial as well as moral.

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Mr Johns's thesis is that Smedley's commercial failure was in fact a heroic moral success.

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They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies but associations of a thousand other kinds-religious, moral, serious, futile, enormous, or diminutive.

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