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To my daughter Leonora without whose never failing sympathy and encouragement this book would...
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose...
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Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
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This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all...