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... take visitors over the Williamsburg Colonial Capitol and give their spiel whether you want to hear it or not . One place Lankes hates perfectly . That is Europe and all older lands . One time he ... taking pains . Lankes measures xiii.
... take visitors over the Williamsburg Colonial Capitol and give their spiel whether you want to hear it or not . One place Lankes hates perfectly . That is Europe and all older lands . One time he ... taking pains . Lankes measures xiii.
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Thomas Gray. One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures up well there , too . He takes infinite pains . He takes time to get things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping ...
Thomas Gray. One sign of genius is taking pains . Lankes measures up well there , too . He takes infinite pains . He takes time to get things right . It may take half of all the nights of a year , it may rob him of half a man's sleeping ...
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... take pains to paint . The geniuses are different . They are alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them into Norman castles and made chivalric knights ...
... take pains to paint . The geniuses are different . They are alive . When Chaucer wrote of the Trojan men and women , he put them into mediaeval doublet - and - hose and gores , he put them into Norman castles and made chivalric knights ...
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