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... never fails , when speaking of his be- loved romantics , to show that their freedom was either an achievement or a failure ; he has no use for the books which can be drained in one reading ; he likes best poets like Mere- dith or ...
... never fails , when speaking of his be- loved romantics , to show that their freedom was either an achievement or a failure ; he has no use for the books which can be drained in one reading ; he likes best poets like Mere- dith or ...
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... never to read for mere amusement . And once the habit of the discipline has been formed , he will even find it impos- sible to read for mere amusement . He will then impa- tiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain ...
... never to read for mere amusement . And once the habit of the discipline has been formed , he will even find it impos- sible to read for mere amusement . He will then impa- tiently throw down any book from which he cannot obtain ...
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... never read more than once . But we can not consider the judgment of a single individual infallible . The opinion that makes a book great must be the opinion of many . For even the greatest critics are apt to have certain dulnesses ...
... never read more than once . But we can not consider the judgment of a single individual infallible . The opinion that makes a book great must be the opinion of many . For even the greatest critics are apt to have certain dulnesses ...
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... never saw how beautiful it was before . At fifty or sixty years of age the same facts will repeat themselves . A great book grows exactly in proportion to the growth of the reader's mind . It was the discovery of this extraordinary fact ...
... never saw how beautiful it was before . At fifty or sixty years of age the same facts will repeat themselves . A great book grows exactly in proportion to the growth of the reader's mind . It was the discovery of this extraordinary fact ...
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... never even dreamed . Since his time how vast has been the expansion of our astronomical knowledge ! We now know thirty millions of suns , all of which are probably attended by planets , giving a probable total of three hundred millions ...
... never even dreamed . Since his time how vast has been the expansion of our astronomical knowledge ! We now know thirty millions of suns , all of which are probably attended by planets , giving a probable total of three hundred millions ...
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