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... hope that this free confession may be taken into account towards a reduction of my sentence . Not that it would have been possible to escape detection ; for , even where I have not acknowledged the source of my loot , the language that ...
... hope that this free confession may be taken into account towards a reduction of my sentence . Not that it would have been possible to escape detection ; for , even where I have not acknowledged the source of my loot , the language that ...
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... hope , only in order that their minds may become storehouses of facts , nor even encyclopaedias of knowledge - these are not fruits of the Art that we are considering . Such persons will read omnivorously to find out , from Plato down ...
... hope , only in order that their minds may become storehouses of facts , nor even encyclopaedias of knowledge - these are not fruits of the Art that we are considering . Such persons will read omnivorously to find out , from Plato down ...
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... hope to offer you upon the making and the care of libraries large or small - for do not let anybody suppose that nowadays libraries are the monopoly of the well - to - do . It is not the rich men who are now the greatest readers ; they ...
... hope to offer you upon the making and the care of libraries large or small - for do not let anybody suppose that nowadays libraries are the monopoly of the well - to - do . It is not the rich men who are now the greatest readers ; they ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
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