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However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ; and Rasselas , though eclipsed in brilliance by its twin , Voltaire's Candide , which by a strange coincidence appeared only a few weeks earlier.
However , not the least strong of human wishes is to read about their vanity ; and Rasselas , though eclipsed in brilliance by its twin , Voltaire's Candide , which by a strange coincidence appeared only a few weeks earlier.
Pagina 113
At least , however , he can also laugh very pleasantly at his own gloom . “ Sir , ' begins an imaginary correspondent in Rambler 109 , ' though you seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have ...
At least , however , he can also laugh very pleasantly at his own gloom . “ Sir , ' begins an imaginary correspondent in Rambler 109 , ' though you seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life , and have ...
Pagina 153
But , to his life's end , he at least remained true to this curious creed of resting one's happiness on being thought much of by people of whom one thinks nothing at all . And to this most peculiar end what , then , are the means ?
But , to his life's end , he at least remained true to this curious creed of resting one's happiness on being thought much of by people of whom one thinks nothing at all . And to this most peculiar end what , then , are the means ?
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