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... live the life of the mind and imagination . Thoreau long ago told us that most men lead lives of quiet desperation , but people outside New York feel that New Yorkers lead lives of noisy distraction . Yet the fact remains that it is not ...
... live the life of the mind and imagination . Thoreau long ago told us that most men lead lives of quiet desperation , but people outside New York feel that New Yorkers lead lives of noisy distraction . Yet the fact remains that it is not ...
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... live deep and suck out all the marrow of life , to live so sturdily and Spartan - like as to put to rout all that was not life , to cut a broad swath and shave close , to drive life into a corner , and reduce it to its lowest terms ...
... live deep and suck out all the marrow of life , to live so sturdily and Spartan - like as to put to rout all that was not life , to cut a broad swath and shave close , to drive life into a corner , and reduce it to its lowest terms ...
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... live in a name , To live in mankind , far , far more . . . than to live in a name . For Greater Appreciation 1. The converts follow the Salvation Army leader into Heaven . On the basis of the poem , to what kind of people did Booth ...
... live in a name , To live in mankind , far , far more . . . than to live in a name . For Greater Appreciation 1. The converts follow the Salvation Army leader into Heaven . On the basis of the poem , to what kind of people did Booth ...
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APPROACHING AMERICAN | 1 |
Carl Sandburg Chicago | 34 |
William Saroyan The Oyster and the Pearl | 60 |
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