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... never occurred to me to do so . I never made a note of anything that I did not think would be useful to me at one time or another in my work , and though , especially in the early notebooks , I jotted down all kinds of thoughts and ...
... never occurred to me to do so . I never made a note of anything that I did not think would be useful to me at one time or another in my work , and though , especially in the early notebooks , I jotted down all kinds of thoughts and ...
Page 57
... never been used before . He never surprises . His imagination is without violence or daring . He is content to walk the old road , using phrases and expressions as he finds them ; and the chief peculiarity of his style consists in his ...
... never been used before . He never surprises . His imagination is without violence or daring . He is content to walk the old road , using phrases and expressions as he finds them ; and the chief peculiarity of his style consists in his ...
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... never excessive , never false , never boring . He is neither a preacher nor a prophet ; he is content to be a novelist pure and simple . It may well be that a future generation will come to the conclusion that he was the greatest of the ...
... never excessive , never false , never boring . He is neither a preacher nor a prophet ; he is content to be a novelist pure and simple . It may well be that a future generation will come to the conclusion that he was the greatest of the ...
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