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... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
... mind grows narrow in a narrow place , whose mind is enlarged only because he has lived in a large place : but what is got by books and thinking is preserved in a narrow place as well as in a large place . A man cannot know modes of life ...
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James Boswell. true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small . Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant , ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine , which came in such a year ; it lies in ...
James Boswell. true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small . Now I am told the King of Prussia will say to a servant , ' Bring me a bottle of such a wine , which came in such a year ; it lies in ...
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... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . When in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an Ode of Horace , which is printed ...
... mind from the uneasy reflection of delaying what he ought to do . When in the country , notwithstanding the accumulation of illness which he endured , his mind did not lose its powers . He translated an Ode of Horace , which is printed ...
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