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Page 67
... true that to understand is to pity and for- give . But I must admit that , with these reservations that I have tried always to remember , the experience of all the years that have followed has only con- firmed the observations on human ...
... true that to understand is to pity and for- give . But I must admit that , with these reservations that I have tried always to remember , the experience of all the years that have followed has only con- firmed the observations on human ...
Page 204
... true ; what mattered was that with the help of my imagination I could make of each person I met a plausible harmony . It was the most entrancing game in which I had ever engaged . One reads that no one exactly resembles anyone else ...
... true ; what mattered was that with the help of my imagination I could make of each person I met a plausible harmony . It was the most entrancing game in which I had ever engaged . One reads that no one exactly resembles anyone else ...
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... true it was a great weakness in that strange and somewhat theatrical character . It showed want of sense . For the ... true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or tumble a pretty girl on a bed ; it is true that he can ...
... true it was a great weakness in that strange and somewhat theatrical character . It showed want of sense . For the ... true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or tumble a pretty girl on a bed ; it is true that he can ...
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