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Page 67
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of 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 ...
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of 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 ...
Page 69
... humour . The miser was nothing but miserly , the fop foppish , and the glutton gluttonous . It never occurred to anyone that the miser might be foppish and gluttonous ; and yet we see constantly people who are ; still less , that he ...
... humour . The miser was nothing but miserly , the fop foppish , and the glutton gluttonous . It never occurred to anyone that the miser might be foppish and gluttonous ; and yet we see constantly people who are ; still less , that he ...
Page 109
... humour , in which with awe , astonishment and a spark of envy for such wildness , the sensible little man describes a supper party with an actress . For once in his life he felt a devil of a fellow . Good gracious , how the champagne ...
... humour , in which with awe , astonishment and a spark of envy for such wildness , the sensible little man describes a supper party with an actress . For once in his life he felt a devil of a fellow . Good gracious , how the champagne ...
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