The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... begin where the man becomes his own intellectual master , and means to use his talents to the utmost of his ability . And I prefer to speak of talent rather than of genius ; for talent is more normal and is more enviable than genius ...
... begin where the man becomes his own intellectual master , and means to use his talents to the utmost of his ability . And I prefer to speak of talent rather than of genius ; for talent is more normal and is more enviable than genius ...
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... begin praying for him - and stop lending him money . He is , after all , of the same genus as the bigot , whose mind is like the pupil of an eye : the more light you shed on it the more it contracts . See , then , what we get from ...
... begin praying for him - and stop lending him money . He is , after all , of the same genus as the bigot , whose mind is like the pupil of an eye : the more light you shed on it the more it contracts . See , then , what we get from ...
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... begin with , and that is quite enough for my purpose . The atmosphere of books is congenial and common to reading , writing and resting . It is better not to eat in it , though many a great scholar has done this too . The first ...
... begin with , and that is quite enough for my purpose . The atmosphere of books is congenial and common to reading , writing and resting . It is better not to eat in it , though many a great scholar has done this too . The first ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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