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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 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 ...
Page 90
... human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever fulfilment I could out of social intercourse and human relations , out of food , drink and fornication ...
... human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever fulfilment I could out of social intercourse and human relations , out of food , drink and fornication ...
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