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... felt I was the luckiest of men when I managed to get a few tablets of saccharine . It sweetened my beetroot tea , and as I drank it with a burnt crust of bread I felt new strength pouring into my veins . - All our money went on barley ...
... felt I was the luckiest of men when I managed to get a few tablets of saccharine . It sweetened my beetroot tea , and as I drank it with a burnt crust of bread I felt new strength pouring into my veins . - All our money went on barley ...
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... felt cruelly hurt for France and for the French , hurt for the whole of their great culture , for Diderot and Voltaire , Hugo and Stendhal , for Zola and Corot , for Pasteur and Delacroix , for all the great Frenchmen whom none of us ...
... felt cruelly hurt for France and for the French , hurt for the whole of their great culture , for Diderot and Voltaire , Hugo and Stendhal , for Zola and Corot , for Pasteur and Delacroix , for all the great Frenchmen whom none of us ...
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... felt as though my face were warmed by its unseen rays . With all my being I sensed , on that January day , how gentle was the south , how soft its air , how pleasant its humidity . I had been to Sebastopol as a child , and again during ...
... felt as though my face were warmed by its unseen rays . With all my being I sensed , on that January day , how gentle was the south , how soft its air , how pleasant its humidity . I had been to Sebastopol as a child , and again during ...
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