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... stands within the family but is able both to praise it and to blame it strongly , standing both close and far . His biography may help to explain his critical distancing , but unlike so many left - wing intellectuals , he was not merely ...
... stands within the family but is able both to praise it and to blame it strongly , standing both close and far . His biography may help to explain his critical distancing , but unlike so many left - wing intellectuals , he was not merely ...
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... stand out as men of exceptional talent . As for Baldwin , one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt . He was simply a hole in the air . The mishandling of England's domestic prob- lems during the nineteen - twenties ...
... stand out as men of exceptional talent . As for Baldwin , one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt . He was simply a hole in the air . The mishandling of England's domestic prob- lems during the nineteen - twenties ...
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... standing still . Nothing ever stands still . We must add to our heritage or lose it , we must grow greater or grow less , we must go forward or backward . I believe in England , and I believe that we shall go forward . More about ...
... standing still . Nothing ever stands still . We must add to our heritage or lose it , we must grow greater or grow less , we must go forward or backward . I believe in England , and I believe that we shall go forward . More about ...
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