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Who has not seen the scholar's thinlipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
Who has not seen the scholar's thinlipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
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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 cast your eye over ...
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 cast your eye over ...
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powerful his individuality , the more fantastic is the picture of life he draws . It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has ...
powerful his individuality , the more fantastic is the picture of life he draws . It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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