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Page 56
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
Page 73
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
Page 206
... asked from nobody more than he could give me . I had learnt toleration . I was pleased with the goodness of my fellows ; I was not distressed by their badness . I had acquired independence of spirit . I had learnt to go my own way ...
... asked from nobody more than he could give me . I had learnt toleration . I was pleased with the goodness of my fellows ; I was not distressed by their badness . I had acquired independence of spirit . I had learnt to go my own way ...
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