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... truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to re- veal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with themselves , their surprise ...
... truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to re- veal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with themselves , their surprise ...
Page 75
... truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he should like ...
... truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he should like ...
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... truth in this attitude to impress . It responded to the deep - seated puritanism of the Anglo - Saxon race . But , if not amorous , the English are sentimental and emotional , and they felt that it was not the whole truth . When other ...
... truth in this attitude to impress . It responded to the deep - seated puritanism of the Anglo - Saxon race . But , if not amorous , the English are sentimental and emotional , and they felt that it was not the whole truth . When other ...
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