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... learning , he writes also of the dream of immortality as the principal dream of human existence , and records the various ways in which the dream not only stimulates but threatens achievement . He writes in The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
... learning , he writes also of the dream of immortality as the principal dream of human existence , and records the various ways in which the dream not only stimulates but threatens achievement . He writes in The Vanity of Human Wishes ...
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... learning ; in which wit , the prerogative of fashion , and the learning of the scholar , despite an initial quarrel , soon saw ' the necessity of union . They therefore joined their hands ... in perpetual concord ' , married , and ...
... learning ; in which wit , the prerogative of fashion , and the learning of the scholar , despite an initial quarrel , soon saw ' the necessity of union . They therefore joined their hands ... in perpetual concord ' , married , and ...
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... learning , we grow more happy as our minds take a wider range . ' Possessing an essentially curious mind , Imlac has collected a great store of information which on the face of it is useless ; for instance learning from the sailors the ...
... learning , we grow more happy as our minds take a wider range . ' Possessing an essentially curious mind , Imlac has collected a great store of information which on the face of it is useless ; for instance learning from the sailors the ...
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surly virtue and pleasing dream | 4 |
The Vanity of Human Wishes | 42 |
those that aspire to the name | 57 |
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