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This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they ...
This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they ...
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have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
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Awe remains , man's sense of helplessness , and his desire to attain harmony between himself and the universe at large . These , rather than the worship of nature or of ancestors , magic or morality , are the sources of religion .
Awe remains , man's sense of helplessness , and his desire to attain harmony between himself and the universe at large . These , rather than the worship of nature or of ancestors , magic or morality , are the sources of religion .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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