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... better . # The Recipe . The young are earnest . He was a young man with a pugnacious but rather attractive face and a shock of thick brown hair , brushed straight back from his forehead , to which he sought by the lavish application of ...
... better . # The Recipe . The young are earnest . He was a young man with a pugnacious but rather attractive face and a shock of thick brown hair , brushed straight back from his forehead , to which he sought by the lavish application of ...
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... better . One takes pains to be simple , clear and succinct . One aims at rhythm and balance . One reads a sentence aloud to see that it sounds well . One sweats one's guts out . The fact remains that the four greatest novelists the ...
... better . One takes pains to be simple , clear and succinct . One aims at rhythm and balance . One reads a sentence aloud to see that it sounds well . One sweats one's guts out . The fact remains that the four greatest novelists the ...
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... better and wiser and more power- ful than man ? A poor reason . No better than that my maid should humble herself before me because I'm white , have more money and am better educated than she is . I should have thought it was God who ...
... better and wiser and more power- ful than man ? A poor reason . No better than that my maid should humble herself before me because I'm white , have more money and am better educated than she is . I should have thought it was God who ...
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