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"While his sergeants and corporals would return to their base with soldiers who could understand what serving in a con…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

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"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

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