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... present day he would write as well as it is possible for anyone to write . Xv From time to time I have asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature . Somewhat early , but at what ...
... present day he would write as well as it is possible for anyone to write . Xv From time to time I have asked myself whether I should have been a better writer if I had devoted my whole life to literature . Somewhat early , but at what ...
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... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
... present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it for granted . It is interwoven in the pattern and what interests me is what ...
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... present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased as ...
... present , I answered without hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from bad to worse and I was as pleased as ...
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