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Page 11
I must write as though I were a person of importance ; and indeed , I am — to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even taking into consideration so grand a conception as the ...
I must write as though I were a person of importance ; and indeed , I am — to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even taking into consideration so grand a conception as the ...
Page 184
It can only give him two good things : one , the more important by far , is the freedom to follow his own bent , and the other is confidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he ...
It can only give him two good things : one , the more important by far , is the freedom to follow his own bent , and the other is confidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he ...
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He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation ...
He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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