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... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
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... picture of life . It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in the end in doing something else ; he will draw a complete picture of himself . At all events to think thus is a consolation when you ...
... picture of life . It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in the end in doing something else ; he will draw a complete picture of himself . At all events to think thus is a consolation when you ...
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... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . lxii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . lxii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
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