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Page 37
What in fact happened was that I had put the finishing touches to a façade behind
which I could conceal or camouflage my intellect and also hide from most people
, both in Ceylon and for the remainder of my life , the fact that I am mentally ...
What in fact happened was that I had put the finishing touches to a façade behind
which I could conceal or camouflage my intellect and also hide from most people
, both in Ceylon and for the remainder of my life , the fact that I am mentally ...
Page 38
The mere fact that I had brought a dog with me — which had hardly if ever been
done by a civil servant before — was well thought of and began to counteract
Voltaire , and the two things , the one so obviously right and the other so
obviously ...
The mere fact that I had brought a dog with me — which had hardly if ever been
done by a civil servant before — was well thought of and began to counteract
Voltaire , and the two things , the one so obviously right and the other so
obviously ...
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Of course , many of the reactions of intelligent people are just as ridiculous , silly ,
and simple as those of the most unintelligent ; the only difference is that in
ordinary life we are clever enough to conceal the fact from the world in general
and ...
Of course , many of the reactions of intelligent people are just as ridiculous , silly ,
and simple as those of the most unintelligent ; the only difference is that in
ordinary life we are clever enough to conceal the fact from the world in general
and ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 30 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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