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... live and work in town . Human beings are never content . When you lived entirely in the country , it is very likely you used to think how pleasant and cheerful it would be to spend the dead months of the year in town ; and just as the ...
... live and work in town . Human beings are never content . When you lived entirely in the country , it is very likely you used to think how pleasant and cheerful it would be to spend the dead months of the year in town ; and just as the ...
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... live in a vague atmosphere of dread of the world , and of what the world is saying of them . You may discern the belief which prevails with the steady - going mass of humankind , in the typical though not historical fact which was ...
... live in a vague atmosphere of dread of the world , and of what the world is saying of them . You may discern the belief which prevails with the steady - going mass of humankind , in the typical though not historical fact which was ...
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... lives ; or the opinion of even some single individual of a somewhat strong , and probably somewhat coarse and ... live in a vague fear of that which may be styled Mrs. Grundy ; and are cowed into abject submission not merely to ...
... lives ; or the opinion of even some single individual of a somewhat strong , and probably somewhat coarse and ... live in a vague fear of that which may be styled Mrs. Grundy ; and are cowed into abject submission not merely to ...
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... live is in that book's favour . And most people will bow to that judgment . Not very many people have so much firmness , or confidence in themselves , as to hold their own opinion in the presence of the strongly ex- pressed opinion of ...
... live is in that book's favour . And most people will bow to that judgment . Not very many people have so much firmness , or confidence in themselves , as to hold their own opinion in the presence of the strongly ex- pressed opinion of ...
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... live , even though that opinion be in itself worth nothing . There is compensation , however , in the fact , that , if the unfavourable opinions of stupid and incompetent people are able to depress a man , the favourable opinions of ...
... live , even though that opinion be in itself worth nothing . There is compensation , however , in the fact , that , if the unfavourable opinions of stupid and incompetent people are able to depress a man , the favourable opinions of ...
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