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Page 39
... humour and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously . When I have heard judges on the bench moral- izing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as ...
... humour and if they lead us to take ourselves not too seriously . When I have heard judges on the bench moral- izing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as ...
Page 47
... 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 ...
Page 139
... humour , go on thinking mine a higher one . It was different . Their lives too formed themselves to the discerning eye into a pattern that had order and finally coherence . I stepped off my pedestal . It seemed to me that these men had ...
... humour , go on thinking mine a higher one . It was different . Their lives too formed themselves to the discerning eye into a pattern that had order and finally coherence . I stepped off my pedestal . It seemed to me that these men had ...
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