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He was the sort of man to whom you can't explain anything . He was extremely sensitive , and it would have been a tigerish thing to do to mangle his delicate feelings by the sort of plain speaking that would have been necessary .
He was the sort of man to whom you can't explain anything . He was extremely sensitive , and it would have been a tigerish thing to do to mangle his delicate feelings by the sort of plain speaking that would have been necessary .
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That sort , when they know you are helpless , there's nothing to stop them . I don't know how it is , but bad people , real bad people that you can see are bad , they get over me somehow . It's the way they set about downing one .
That sort , when they know you are helpless , there's nothing to stop them . I don't know how it is , but bad people , real bad people that you can see are bad , they get over me somehow . It's the way they set about downing one .
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“ This is the second time . " He scrambled to his feet and towered above her . “ That's because , when one's heart has been broken into in the way you have broken into mine , all sorts of weaknesses are ...
“ This is the second time . " He scrambled to his feet and towered above her . “ That's because , when one's heart has been broken into in the way you have broken into mine , all sorts of weaknesses are ...
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He is stupid . How did he manage to hatch that pretty Have I a particularly vile countenance ? Is black selfishness written all over my face ? Or is that sort of thing so universally human that it might be said of anybody ?
He is stupid . How did he manage to hatch that pretty Have I a particularly vile countenance ? Is black selfishness written all over my face ? Or is that sort of thing so universally human that it might be said of anybody ?
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Not the sort that always itches for a weapon , for I have never been anxious to use one in the quarrels that a man gets into in the most innocent way , sometimes . The indifferences for which men murder each other are ...
Not the sort that always itches for a weapon , for I have never been anxious to use one in the quarrels that a man gets into in the most innocent way , sometimes . The indifferences for which men murder each other are ...
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 2 Volume 17 of Standard collection of British and American authors Victory: An Island Tale, Joseph Conrad |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Publisher | Louis Conard, 1916 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Jan 2019 |
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