Speaking of Books and LifeHolt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966 - 279 Seiten Contains 125 of the 900 columns the author produced for the New York Times. |
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... ourselves just what it is we wish to convey . We mumble some- thing about " the American way of life , " and find it hard to be ex- plicit if we are pressed . Everybody is aware that there are no more dangerous generaliza- tions than ...
... ourselves just what it is we wish to convey . We mumble some- thing about " the American way of life , " and find it hard to be ex- plicit if we are pressed . Everybody is aware that there are no more dangerous generaliza- tions than ...
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... ourselves with him , and to conceive that what is true of him may be true of us , and that what happens to him may happen to ourselves . I do not mean this in application to the merely physical facts . We do not need the poet to tell us ...
... ourselves with him , and to conceive that what is true of him may be true of us , and that what happens to him may happen to ourselves . I do not mean this in application to the merely physical facts . We do not need the poet to tell us ...
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... ourselves to the border of hysterics over Ruggles of Red Gap . As Mr. Sullivan remarked , the climate is not propitious for humor , and yet , like him , I am a little distressed and a little puzzled that the crop of new humorous writers ...
... ourselves to the border of hysterics over Ruggles of Red Gap . As Mr. Sullivan remarked , the climate is not propitious for humor , and yet , like him , I am a little distressed and a little puzzled that the crop of new humorous writers ...
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Foreword 37 | 3 |
Truth Isnt Always Stranger | 7 |
The Proper Study of Mankind | 41 |
Urheberrecht | |
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