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Page 32
... never presented me with such embellishments ; and I was tired of trying to do what did not come easily to me . On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other ...
... never presented me with such embellishments ; and I was tired of trying to do what did not come easily to me . On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other ...
Page 73
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
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... never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty ...
... never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty ...
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