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... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him ...
... young author could hope to write with success . For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him ...
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... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the generation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and mothers ...
... Young women have learnt now to be the companions of young men . One of the difficulties that my generation had to face , the generation that saw the emancipation of women , was this : women had ceased to be the housekeepers and mothers ...
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... young man turns away from it with horror because he thinks that when he reaches it , he will still yearn for the things that give variety and gusto to his youth . He is mistaken . It is true that the old man will no longer be able to ...
... young man turns away from it with horror because he thinks that when he reaches it , he will still yearn for the things that give variety and gusto to his youth . He is mistaken . It is true that the old man will no longer be able to ...
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