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... thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed , My breath came gaspingly and thick , And my crushed heart fell blind and sick . 315 And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again , And cheering from my ...
... thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed , My breath came gaspingly and thick , And my crushed heart fell blind and sick . 315 And it was come to love me when None lived to love me so again , And cheering from my ...
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... thought . I like labor- saving devices , because they economize time and energy which may be devoted to mental labor . ( But then I enjoy mental la- bor ; there are plenty of people who detest it , and who feel as much enthusiasm for ...
... thought . I like labor- saving devices , because they economize time and energy which may be devoted to mental labor . ( But then I enjoy mental la- bor ; there are plenty of people who detest it , and who feel as much enthusiasm for ...
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... thought of the British Raj1 as an unbreakable tyranny , as some- thing clamped down , in saecula saecu- lorum , 2 upon the will of prostrate peoples ; with another part I thought that the great- est joy in the world would be to drive a ...
... thought of the British Raj1 as an unbreakable tyranny , as some- thing clamped down , in saecula saecu- lorum , 2 upon the will of prostrate peoples ; with another part I thought that the great- est joy in the world would be to drive a ...
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