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I have a little photograph of her , a middleaged woman in a crinoline with fine eyes and a look of good - humoured determination . My mother was very small , with large brown eyes and hair of a rich reddish gold , exquisite features and ...
I have a little photograph of her , a middleaged woman in a crinoline with fine eyes and a look of good - humoured determination . My mother was very small , with large brown eyes and hair of a rich reddish gold , exquisite features and ...
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You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint .
You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint .
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Though short he was handsome , with finely cut features and curly hair ; he had pale blue eyes and a wistful expression . He looked as one imagines a poet should look . As an old man , after a life of complete indolence , bald and ...
Though short he was handsome , with finely cut features and curly hair ; he had pale blue eyes and a wistful expression . He looked as one imagines a poet should look . As an old man , after a life of complete indolence , bald and ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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