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I was young , lusty and energetic ; I wanted fresh air , action , violence , and I found it hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper .
I was young , lusty and energetic ; I wanted fresh air , action , violence , and I found it hard to breathe that dead , heavily scented atmosphere and sit in those hushed rooms in which it was indecorous to speak above a whisper .
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I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
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If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility ...
If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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