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Page 107
... imagination of young men who were forced to earn their living in an office . They were extravagant persons in a sober world , thoughtless in a careful one , and fancy clothed them with glamour . There is in Victor Hugo's Choses Vues a ...
... imagination of young men who were forced to earn their living in an office . They were extravagant persons in a sober world , thoughtless in a careful one , and fancy clothed them with glamour . There is in Victor Hugo's Choses Vues a ...
Page 161
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
... imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears ...
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... imagination on a living person . I suspect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not impossible , since you can be a very good novelist without being very intelligent ) or deceive us . When ...
... imagination on a living person . I suspect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not impossible , since you can be a very good novelist without being very intelligent ) or deceive us . When ...
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