Living Upstairs: Reading for Profit and PleasureE. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1942 - 256 Seiten The author uses the idea of decorating and furnishing an upper room in one's house as an allegory for developing reading habits for profit and recreation. |
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... personality is a poor apology for the ripe , well - rounded man . Heroes , sages , saints , the great men of the race have been wing- bearers , star - gazers , in their eyes a gentle remoteness begotten of habitual concern with things ...
... personality is a poor apology for the ripe , well - rounded man . Heroes , sages , saints , the great men of the race have been wing- bearers , star - gazers , in their eyes a gentle remoteness begotten of habitual concern with things ...
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... personality . The wedge of tobacco which an experi- enced reader's thumb stuffs into a pipe - what stories it might tell of love and greed , of joy and grief , of hope deferred and rifts within the lute of friendship . Spring- ing like ...
... personality . The wedge of tobacco which an experi- enced reader's thumb stuffs into a pipe - what stories it might tell of love and greed , of joy and grief , of hope deferred and rifts within the lute of friendship . Spring- ing like ...
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... personality and our influence . We are born in discord and usually brought up therein , like some strange creature who comes into the world with disjoined arms and legs and misplaced ears and eyebrows , and much of our life span we ...
... personality and our influence . We are born in discord and usually brought up therein , like some strange creature who comes into the world with disjoined arms and legs and misplaced ears and eyebrows , and much of our life span we ...
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