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Page 83
I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that were of no
great profit to me . What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to
live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown .
I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that were of no
great profit to me . What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to
live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown .
Page 284
The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems
frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to
be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has
dwelt ...
The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems
frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to
be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has
dwelt ...
Page 288
We live now on the eve of great revolutions . I cannot doubt that the proletariat ,
increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one country
after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing classes of today ...
We live now on the eve of great revolutions . I cannot doubt that the proletariat ,
increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one country
after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing classes of today ...
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