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I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
I do not know whether it was a subconscious feeling that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
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When once I happened to do a friend a good turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel ...
When once I happened to do a friend a good turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel ...
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It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be hard to live always with Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel , but anyone could do with one of ...
It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be hard to live always with Michelangelo's ceiling in the Sistine Chapel , but anyone could do with one of ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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