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... one's appetite is soon appeased and after one has satisfied it one is not hungry . A It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice . Most people act in one way and preach in ...
... one's appetite is soon appeased and after one has satisfied it one is not hungry . A It is quite as difficult to fit one's practice to one's precepts as to fit one's precepts to one's practice . Most people act in one way and preach in ...
Page 52
... one's fellows , and one realises that they are strangers to one . Then perhaps one places all one's love , all one's faculty of expansion on one person , making , as it were , a final effort to join one's soul to his ; with all one's ...
... one's fellows , and one realises that they are strangers to one . Then perhaps one places all one's love , all one's faculty of expansion on one person , making , as it were , a final effort to join one's soul to his ; with all one's ...
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... one's head about Dostoievsky . It is not necessary to read a novel with the ecstatic unction of a nun in contemplation of the Blessed Sacra- ment . To gush is not only tiresome to others , but unprofitable to oneself . And I think one ...
... one's head about Dostoievsky . It is not necessary to read a novel with the ecstatic unction of a nun in contemplation of the Blessed Sacra- ment . To gush is not only tiresome to others , but unprofitable to oneself . And I think one ...
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