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Page 80
... tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he ...
... tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he ...
Page 93
... tell you . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
... tell you . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
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... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
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