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... living creature . What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840 ? But then , what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece ? Nothing , except that you happen ...
... living creature . What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840 ? But then , what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece ? Nothing , except that you happen ...
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... living in , but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe , is one of the symbolic figures of England . He is a symbol of the strange mixture or reality and illusion ...
... living in , but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe , is one of the symbolic figures of England . He is a symbol of the strange mixture or reality and illusion ...
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... living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old ...
... living in or what enemy they are fighting . Nothing was more desolating at the beginning of this war than the way in which the whole of the older generation conspired to pretend that it was the war of 1914-18 over again . All the old ...
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