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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about 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 ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about 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 ...
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If he is a writer he a will fulfil some need in the nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this ...
If he is a writer he a will fulfil some need in the nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this ...
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By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily ...
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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