The Summing Up |
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Page 3
... asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great degree of intelligence was needed to rule a nation ...
... asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great degree of intelligence was needed to rule a nation ...
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... asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company . He told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incor ...
... asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company . He told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incor ...
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... 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 ...
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