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... pleasure in distorting the brains of us poor mortals . Lunatics ! Moonstruck . Calumny invented , and folly took up these names . ' Seeking for words to describe the condition of Don Quixote after Sancha has lost faith in his master ...
... pleasure in distorting the brains of us poor mortals . Lunatics ! Moonstruck . Calumny invented , and folly took up these names . ' Seeking for words to describe the condition of Don Quixote after Sancha has lost faith in his master ...
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... pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May - morning . It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges , whom I have left behind in the world , carking and caring ; like horses in a mill , drudging on in the same eternal round and ...
... pleasure with me to Windsor this fine May - morning . It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges , whom I have left behind in the world , carking and caring ; like horses in a mill , drudging on in the same eternal round and ...
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... pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself , and not another Iwould eat her nice cake and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present ! - and the odour of that ...
... pleasure my aunt would be taking in thinking that I - I myself , and not another Iwould eat her nice cake and what should I say to her the next time I saw her - how naughty I was to part with her pretty present ! - and the odour of that ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 9 |
In the Days of My Childhood | 21 |
And in My Joyful Schooldays | 27 |
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