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Page 61
... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
... human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
Page 190
... human nature and his native intuition . The whole business would be plain - sailing if it were not for the susceptibilities of the persons who serve as models for the author's characters . So colossal is human egotism that people who ...
... human nature and his native intuition . The whole business would be plain - sailing if it were not for the susceptibilities of the persons who serve as models for the author's characters . So colossal is human egotism that people who ...
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... human nature that makes it possible for us to get the emo- tion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human ...
... human nature that makes it possible for us to get the emo- tion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human ...
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