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... appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for econo- my's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected the proofs and do not know how near I came to doing ...
... appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for econo- my's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected the proofs and do not know how near I came to doing ...
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... appearance ; it is only by considering these that you can write a sen- tence that is good to look at and good to listen to . I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are ...
... appearance ; it is only by considering these that you can write a sen- tence that is good to look at and good to listen to . I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ; for the most part they are ...
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... appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own sake . The playwright's aim is not now to represent life as it is ( a tragic business ) but to comment on it satirically and amusingly . The ...
... appearance , not the reality , of naturalism is in place . The laugh must be sought for its own sake . The playwright's aim is not now to represent life as it is ( a tragic business ) but to comment on it satirically and amusingly . The ...
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