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... says . But it says more . That is the difficulty . " And that is exactly why Barnard's Sappho ( University of California , 1958 ) is far superior to that of , say , a Smollett or a Tennyson : she says more with fewer words , she offers ...
... says . But it says more . That is the difficulty . " And that is exactly why Barnard's Sappho ( University of California , 1958 ) is far superior to that of , say , a Smollett or a Tennyson : she says more with fewer words , she offers ...
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... says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li , who wrote some fourteen centuries after Chuang : Now , what is poetry ? If you say it is simply a matter of words , I will say a good poet gets rid ...
... says , we may get rid of words . Jonathan Chaves gives us this poem by Yang Wan - li , who wrote some fourteen centuries after Chuang : Now , what is poetry ? If you say it is simply a matter of words , I will say a good poet gets rid ...
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... says that a monkey in a community of monkeys may invent a tool which its neighbors learn to use ; somewhere in a community of another hundred monkeys , another monkey will simultaneously invent the same tool . This theory may be related ...
... says that a monkey in a community of monkeys may invent a tool which its neighbors learn to use ; somewhere in a community of another hundred monkeys , another monkey will simultaneously invent the same tool . This theory may be related ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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