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... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
Page 244
... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol . ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
... experience like that muscular sense that the physiol . ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own experience ...
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... experience , especially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Immortality is too stupendous a notion to be entertained in connection with common mortals . They are too insignificant to ...
... experience , especially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Immortality is too stupendous a notion to be entertained in connection with common mortals . They are too insignificant to ...
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