The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... minds . If their minds are noble they can give you noble figures and perhaps it does not matter if they lack the ... mind and since then it has been forced upon me that it was true of man as well as of anatomy . The normal is what ...
... minds . If their minds are noble they can give you noble figures and perhaps it does not matter if they lack the ... mind and since then it has been forced upon me that it was true of man as well as of anatomy . The normal is what ...
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... mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a pretty heiress . No ...
... mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich widow , his intrigues to get a bishopric and his final capture of a pretty heiress . No ...
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... mind but , what I could not but think more important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from ...
... mind but , what I could not but think more important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from ...
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