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... hand that come without reflection and lead the man to excellence in life , in art , in crime , in virtue and for the matter of that , even in love . Thinking is the great enemy of perfection . The habit of profound re- ་ flection , I am ...
... hand that come without reflection and lead the man to excellence in life , in art , in crime , in virtue and for the matter of that , even in love . Thinking is the great enemy of perfection . The habit of profound re- ་ flection , I am ...
Page 6
... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the fin- ished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
... hand which accompanied the phrase suggested tropical distances being impelled onward . In connection with the fin- ished courtesy of his manner , it was persuasive , or at any rate silencing for a time , at least . Nobody cared to argue ...
Page 8
... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . Heyst had ...
... hand a long glass emptied of its contents - paid for by Heyst - he said , with that deliberate sagacity which no mere water - drinker ever attained : " Heyst's a puffect g'n'lman . Puffect ! But he's a ut - uto - utopist . Heyst had ...
Page 12
... hand . With his system of trading it would have been strange if he had ; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei on - let alone a shilling . The Portuguese officials begged him not to ...
... hand . With his system of trading it would have been strange if he had ; and all these debts entered in the pocketbook weren't good enough to raise a millrei on - let alone a shilling . The Portuguese officials begged him not to ...
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... hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain bills which would fall due while he was away on his cruise ...
... hand . Morrison hadn't . He had only a little English gold , a few sovereigns , on board . He had left all his spare cash with the Tesmans , in Samarang , to meet certain bills which would fall due while he was away on his cruise ...
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