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... common sense is capable of exaggerating with the simplicity and innocence of a savage . His virtue is that he says things that need to be said ; his vice that some of those things needed saying with a great deal more consideration ...
... common sense is capable of exaggerating with the simplicity and innocence of a savage . His virtue is that he says things that need to be said ; his vice that some of those things needed saying with a great deal more consideration ...
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... common people must live to some extent against the existing order . The genuinely popular cul- ture of England is something that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . One thing one ...
... common people must live to some extent against the existing order . The genuinely popular cul- ture of England is something that goes on beneath the surface , unofficially and more or less frowned on by the authorities . One thing one ...
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... common people will feel , as they cannot feel now , that the State is themselves . They will be ready then to endure the sacrifices that are ahead of us , war or no war . And even if the face of England hardly seems to change , on the ...
... common people will feel , as they cannot feel now , that the State is themselves . They will be ready then to endure the sacrifices that are ahead of us , war or no war . And even if the face of England hardly seems to change , on the ...
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