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... less ignorant I might have seen that the opinions that seemed to me so original were theirs only at second - hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point I want to ...
... less ignorant I might have seen that the opinions that seemed to me so original were theirs only at second - hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point I want to ...
Page 118
... less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads , we look ...
... less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads , we look ...
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William Somerset Maugham. find less to satisfy me . It may be that the evils we endure edu- cate us and so make us better ; but observation does not allow us to think that this is a universal rule . It may be that courage and sympathy ...
William Somerset Maugham. find less to satisfy me . It may be that the evils we endure edu- cate us and so make us better ; but observation does not allow us to think that this is a universal rule . It may be that courage and sympathy ...
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