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... seemed to me that the only sensible thing was to aim at what excellence I could within them . I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a small vocabulary and no efforts that I could make to enlarge it much availed me . I had little ...
... seemed to me that the only sensible thing was to aim at what excellence I could within them . I knew that I had no lyrical quality . I had a small vocabulary and no efforts that I could make to enlarge it much availed me . I had little ...
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... seemed to me nearer to the elementals of human nature than any of the people I had been living with for so long ... seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed ; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at ...
... seemed to me nearer to the elementals of human nature than any of the people I had been living with for so long ... seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed ; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at ...
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... seemed to me that with this , the knowledge of the world I had acquired during the forty years of my life ( for I was forty when I conceived this idea ) and the industrious study of philosophical literature to which I was prepared to ...
... seemed to me that with this , the knowledge of the world I had acquired during the forty years of my life ( for I was forty when I conceived this idea ) and the industrious study of philosophical literature to which I was prepared to ...
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