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Page 45
... experience to me . I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession . I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have ...
... experience to me . I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession . I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have ...
Page 67
... experience , and whatever he has in him of character and individuality , so that with infinite pains he may present it with the completeness that is fitting to it . But I am not impatient with the young when , only at their request , I ...
... experience , and whatever he has in him of character and individuality , so that with infinite pains he may present it with the completeness that is fitting to it . But I am not impatient with the young when , only at their request , I ...
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... experience . I did . I filled notebooks with descriptions of places and persons and the stories they suggested . I became aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive ...
... experience . I did . I filled notebooks with descriptions of places and persons and the stories they suggested . I became aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive ...
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