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... diary : Many many deep thoughts have visited me . And fled . The pen puts salt on their tails ; they see the shadow and fly . I was thinking about vampires . Leeches . Anyone with 500 a year and education is at once sucked by the ...
... diary : Many many deep thoughts have visited me . And fled . The pen puts salt on their tails ; they see the shadow and fly . I was thinking about vampires . Leeches . Anyone with 500 a year and education is at once sucked by the ...
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... diary which I kept from August 28 , 1908 , to May 15 , 1911 , when I was Assistant Govern- ment Agent of the Hambantota District in Ceylon . All Government Agents and Assistant Government Agents of those bad old days had to keep a ...
... diary which I kept from August 28 , 1908 , to May 15 , 1911 , when I was Assistant Govern- ment Agent of the Hambantota District in Ceylon . All Government Agents and Assistant Government Agents of those bad old days had to keep a ...
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... diary , with the inexcusable arrogance and sublime courage of youth , some sarcastic - and not unjustified - criticism of my superior , the Government Agent of the Southern Province . ) These official diaries go back in some provinces ...
... diary , with the inexcusable arrogance and sublime courage of youth , some sarcastic - and not unjustified - criticism of my superior , the Government Agent of the Southern Province . ) These official diaries go back in some provinces ...
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