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Page 31
... least with perspicuity . Yet you will find in their works sentence after sentence that you must read twice to discover the sense . Often you can only guess at it , for the writers have evidently not said what they intended . Another ...
... least with perspicuity . Yet you will find in their works sentence after sentence that you must read twice to discover the sense . Often you can only guess at it , for the writers have evidently not said what they intended . Another ...
Page 137
... least , they should not be . But playwrights are sensitive creatures , and when they are told that the plays they write are an insult to the adult intelligence , they are distressed . They would like to do better , and so the young ...
... least , they should not be . But playwrights are sensitive creatures , and when they are told that the plays they write are an insult to the adult intelligence , they are distressed . They would like to do better , and so the young ...
Page 281
... least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has been an idea of myself that I have gradually evolved ...
... least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has been an idea of myself that I have gradually evolved ...
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