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... precisely because ' they ' don't care . Indeed , I know a man who could be said to have spent his whole adult life trying to hold off the pessimism of Hardy precisely through the pessimism of Johnson : it would be a great thing to think ...
... precisely because ' they ' don't care . Indeed , I know a man who could be said to have spent his whole adult life trying to hold off the pessimism of Hardy precisely through the pessimism of Johnson : it would be a great thing to think ...
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... precisely that which can see how intelligence itself will not survive by merely hovering over the spectacle of the damaged fortress . It is his practical intelligence which dares to become smaller , reduce itself , in order to enter the ...
... precisely that which can see how intelligence itself will not survive by merely hovering over the spectacle of the damaged fortress . It is his practical intelligence which dares to become smaller , reduce itself , in order to enter the ...
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... precisely unbalanced tendency to go from one extreme to another , from pillar to post , implies an acceptance of a sort of equivocal order even in that . But it is an order inferred by intelligence working on experience : it is not ...
... precisely unbalanced tendency to go from one extreme to another , from pillar to post , implies an acceptance of a sort of equivocal order even in that . But it is an order inferred by intelligence working on experience : it is not ...
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Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
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