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... man- ner of writing of the present day he would write as well as it is possible for anyone to write . Xv From time to time I have asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature .
... man- ner of writing of the present day he would write as well as it is possible for anyone to write . Xv From time to time I have asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature .
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When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers ...
When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers ...
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... to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles .
... to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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