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... eyes in shavings they are making that you can't tell them from just an eight - dollar - a - day carpenter . Or your genius may be talking so much plain common sense that you mistake him for a New England hired man and not a practicing ...
... eyes in shavings they are making that you can't tell them from just an eight - dollar - a - day carpenter . Or your genius may be talking so much plain common sense that you mistake him for a New England hired man and not a practicing ...
Page xi
... eyes . When he got through dusting off his chips , there were the northern New England hills , which always look as though they were carved out clean day before yester- day at dawn and had the dew of Creation morning still on them ...
... eyes . When he got through dusting off his chips , there were the northern New England hills , which always look as though they were carved out clean day before yester- day at dawn and had the dew of Creation morning still on them ...
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... eyes in them . They are his real eyes . In a few minutes he had my corn ears done . He printed the block off . There it was , that geometry of parallels of American beauty , those boxes of compacted jewels , which are kernels , hung by ...
... eyes in them . They are his real eyes . In a few minutes he had my corn ears done . He printed the block off . There it was , that geometry of parallels of American beauty , those boxes of compacted jewels , which are kernels , hung by ...
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