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Page 64
... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
Page 67
... human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality diverts you and you are apt when you cannot find it to create it . You tend to ...
... human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the dis- parity between appearance and reality diverts you and you are apt when you cannot find it to create it . You tend to ...
Page 77
... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It ...
... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It ...
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