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... common that one can only suppose that the sound of it is not universally offensive . Many writers without distress will put two rhyming words together , join a monstrous long adjective to a monstrous long noun , or between the end of ...
... common that one can only suppose that the sound of it is not universally offensive . Many writers without distress will put two rhyming words together , join a monstrous long adjective to a monstrous long noun , or between the end of ...
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... common sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely ...
... common sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely ...
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... common pains and enjoy the common pleas- ures that are part of the common human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever fulfilment I could out of ...
... common pains and enjoy the common pleas- ures that are part of the common human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever fulfilment I could out of ...
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