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... humour , and malice . He had known Swinburne intimately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom friend . For ...
... humour , and malice . He had known Swinburne intimately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom friend . For ...
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... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appear- ance and reality ...
... humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appear- ance and reality ...
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... humour . For some time I was much attracted by the pragma- tists . I had not got as much profit as I expected from , the metaphysical writings of the dons at the great English universities . They seemed to me too gentlemanlike to be ...
... humour . For some time I was much attracted by the pragma- tists . I had not got as much profit as I expected from , the metaphysical writings of the dons at the great English universities . They seemed to me too gentlemanlike to be ...
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