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iii In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the ... I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and more than once , when starting on a journey that was ...
iii In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the ... I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and more than once , when starting on a journey that was ...
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admire them in others as I could admire their far- fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive lan- guage in which they clothed their thoughts , but my own invention never presented me with such embel- lishments ; and I was tired of ...
admire them in others as I could admire their far- fetched tropes and the unusual but suggestive lan- guage in which they clothed their thoughts , but my own invention never presented me with such embel- lishments ; and I was tired of ...
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is thirty years behind the times , and the intelligent , owing to its poverty of thought , have largely ceased to frequent it . I have a notion that when the intelligent look for thought in a playhouse , they show less intelligence than ...
is thirty years behind the times , and the intelligent , owing to its poverty of thought , have largely ceased to frequent it . I have a notion that when the intelligent look for thought in a playhouse , they show less intelligence than ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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