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Page 56
... tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compli- ment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he ...
... tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compli- ment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips . But I chid myself . I thought it very natural that he ...
Page 66
... tell you . 27 YOUNG PERSONS , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
... tell you . 27 YOUNG PERSONS , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
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... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
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