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... asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature . Somewhat early , but at what age I cannot remember , I made up my mind that , having but one life , I should like to get the most I ...
... asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature . Somewhat early , but at what age I cannot remember , I made up my mind that , having but one life , I should like to get the most I ...
Page 56
... 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 at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
... 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 at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
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... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad ...
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad ...
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