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... felt before, for those who left the running. I lay prostrate with fever and close to death for weeks and watched the world go by: the dust, the noise, the very colour of haste. The only sharp pang that I suffered was the feeling that I ...
... felt before, for those who left the running. I lay prostrate with fever and close to death for weeks and watched the world go by: the dust, the noise, the very colour of haste. The only sharp pang that I suffered was the feeling that I ...
Page 4
... felt before , for those who left the running . I lay prostrate with fever and close to death for weeks and watched the world go by : the dust , the noise , the very colour of haste . The only sharp pang that I suffered was the feeling ...
... felt before , for those who left the running . I lay prostrate with fever and close to death for weeks and watched the world go by : the dust , the noise , the very colour of haste . The only sharp pang that I suffered was the feeling ...
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... felt it . All discoveries are made in that way : a man finds the new thing , not in nature but in himself . It was as though , concerned with plow and harness and furrow , I had never known that the world had height or colour or sweet ...
... felt it . All discoveries are made in that way : a man finds the new thing , not in nature but in himself . It was as though , concerned with plow and harness and furrow , I had never known that the world had height or colour or sweet ...
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... felt like an inadequate boy measured against solemnities too large for him . The processes seemed curiously unconvincing , like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing ; and yet when I thought of laughing I felt cold ...
... felt like an inadequate boy measured against solemnities too large for him . The processes seemed curiously unconvincing , like a game in which the important part is to keep from laughing ; and yet when I thought of laughing I felt cold ...
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David Grayson. in clouds of envy . I coveted my neighbour's land : I felt my- self superior and Horace inferior : I was consumed with black vanity . So I dealt hotly with these thoughts until I reached the top of the ridge at the farther ...
David Grayson. in clouds of envy . I coveted my neighbour's land : I felt my- self superior and Horace inferior : I was consumed with black vanity . So I dealt hotly with these thoughts until I reached the top of the ridge at the farther ...
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