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Any simpleton may write a book , but it requires high skill to make an index . "
Rossiter Johnson : Manuscript . 66 ONE must spend time in gathering knowledge
to give it out richly . " Edmund Clarence Stedman : Poets of America , chap .
Any simpleton may write a book , but it requires high skill to make an index . "
Rossiter Johnson : Manuscript . 66 ONE must spend time in gathering knowledge
to give it out richly . " Edmund Clarence Stedman : Poets of America , chap .
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Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines , an actress , say : " My art endows me
with a searching eye , a knowledge of the soul and the soul ' s workings , and ,
spite of all your skill , I read you to the depths . ” ' This is a truth more or less
powerful ...
Victor Hugo makes one of his heroines , an actress , say : " My art endows me
with a searching eye , a knowledge of the soul and the soul ' s workings , and ,
spite of all your skill , I read you to the depths . ” ' This is a truth more or less
powerful ...
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The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . 23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ...
The finest achievements in the art of acting , if they live at all as subjects of
popular knowledge , must live as pictures in the memory . 24 William Winter : The
Stage Life of Mary Anderson . Preface . 23 28 ACTION — see Purpose , Speech ...
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... s eye ; without , a good thing may pass over inobserved , or be lost among
commissions of bankrupt . Addison : The Tatler . No . 224 . 61 The
advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge ADMIRATION - ADI '
ERTISEMENTS .
... s eye ; without , a good thing may pass over inobserved , or be lost among
commissions of bankrupt . Addison : The Tatler . No . 224 . 61 The
advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge ADMIRATION - ADI '
ERTISEMENTS .
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what
is going on in a State or community than the editorial columns are . 64 Henry
Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . The Press . 66 . 67 ADVICE
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what
is going on in a State or community than the editorial columns are . 64 Henry
Ward Beecher : Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit . The Press . 66 . 67 ADVICE
Before ...
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| Title | A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors, Including Translations from Ancient Sources The Astor prose series |
| Editor | Anna Lydia Ward |
| Publisher | T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1889 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 16 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 701 pages |
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