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Page 63
... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . That is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ...
... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . That is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ...
Page 68
... natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these ... nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species , and I decided that , whatever aims men set ...
... natural causes ) was a function of the brain subject like the rest of his body to the laws of cause and effect and that these ... nature played on us to achieve the continuation of the species , and I decided that , whatever aims men set ...
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... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be ...
... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be ...
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