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... gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the pub- lic ; and the gift of speech , as we know , is not often accom- panied by the power of ...
... gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the pub- lic ; and the gift of speech , as we know , is not often accom- panied by the power of ...
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... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an excep- tional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English literature to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
... gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an excep- tional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius . Nor would it be easy in English literature to find a poet with a happier gift than Herrick and yet no one ...
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... gift cannot but raise and so come nearer to the plain truth than has ever been done before . But then you have to make up your mind about the relations between truth and art . 28 I HAD MY full share of the intellectual's arrogance and ...
... gift cannot but raise and so come nearer to the plain truth than has ever been done before . But then you have to make up your mind about the relations between truth and art . 28 I HAD MY full share of the intellectual's arrogance and ...
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