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... meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with more grace than Berkeley . There are two sorts of obscurity that you find in writers . One is due to negligence and the other to wilfulness . People often write ...
... meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with more grace than Berkeley . There are two sorts of obscurity that you find in writers . One is due to negligence and the other to wilfulness . People often write ...
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William Somerset Maugham. not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran- nical things , they exist for their meanings , and if you will not pay attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of ...
William Somerset Maugham. not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran- nical things , they exist for their meanings , and if you will not pay attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of ...
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... meaning and use of life . If death ends all , if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil , I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these circumstances I must conduct myself . Now the answer to one of these ...
... meaning and use of life . If death ends all , if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil , I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these circumstances I must conduct myself . Now the answer to one of these ...
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