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... happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning , if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip . # However much you may dislike a relation , and whatever ill you may yourself say of ...
... happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning , if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip . # However much you may dislike a relation , and whatever ill you may yourself say of ...
Page 180
... happy when they met him he cannot fail to make his readers happy too . He affects one like a June morning in England when the air is sweet with flowers and the birds sing and the salt breeze from the English seas is fresh on the uplands ...
... happy when they met him he cannot fail to make his readers happy too . He affects one like a June morning in England when the air is sweet with flowers and the birds sing and the salt breeze from the English seas is fresh on the uplands ...
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... happy years in France . I have refused because I thought the sort of articles they wanted me to write would only be of disservice . A number of distinguished writers have since done what I would not do . To my mind they have written to ...
... happy years in France . I have refused because I thought the sort of articles they wanted me to write would only be of disservice . A number of distinguished writers have since done what I would not do . To my mind they have written to ...
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