Injury Time: A MemoirPimlico, 2003 - 183 Seiten D.J. Enright died soon after putting the finishing touches to this memoir and commonplace book in which he muses upon his own condition and that of the world he knows he is leaving. With humanity and wit, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and the English language. |
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... knowledge would fend off age ? Or preserve their health ? Or keep their memory without which knowledge deserts us in good repair ? Not if they were intelligent and thoughtful . Have they worn themselves out in the acquiring of knowledge ...
... knowledge would fend off age ? Or preserve their health ? Or keep their memory without which knowledge deserts us in good repair ? Not if they were intelligent and thoughtful . Have they worn themselves out in the acquiring of knowledge ...
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... knowledge of pain , you would at the same time eradicate knowledge of pleasure . For man , ill can be good in its turn . ' Which is also consoling , I suppose , if less persuasively . One seems to have heard something like it propounded ...
... knowledge of pain , you would at the same time eradicate knowledge of pleasure . For man , ill can be good in its turn . ' Which is also consoling , I suppose , if less persuasively . One seems to have heard something like it propounded ...
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... knowledge of all that was harsh , uncouth , difficult , abstract , professional , exclusive ; to humanize it , to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned , yet still remaining the best knowledge and thought of ...
... knowledge of all that was harsh , uncouth , difficult , abstract , professional , exclusive ; to humanize it , to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned , yet still remaining the best knowledge and thought of ...
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