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Page 697
... mind that this requires : it is like sleeping with your pistol under your pillow , and it on full cock ; a moment lost and all may be lost . There is the very nick of time . This is what we mean by presence of mind ; by a man having ...
... mind that this requires : it is like sleeping with your pistol under your pillow , and it on full cock ; a moment lost and all may be lost . There is the very nick of time . This is what we mean by presence of mind ; by a man having ...
Page 698
Arthur Quiller-Couch. speak , only a portion of the mind that is thus needed and thus available ; if the whole mind were for ever at the advanced post , it would soon lose itself in this endeavour to keep it ... We must have just enough ...
Arthur Quiller-Couch. speak , only a portion of the mind that is thus needed and thus available ; if the whole mind were for ever at the advanced post , it would soon lose itself in this endeavour to keep it ... We must have just enough ...
Page 857
... mind be able to comprehend its mind with any thoroughness . For unity of mind can only be con- summated by unity of body ; everything , therefore , must be in some respects both knave and fool to all that which has not eaten it , or by ...
... mind be able to comprehend its mind with any thoroughness . For unity of mind can only be con- summated by unity of body ; everything , therefore , must be in some respects both knave and fool to all that which has not eaten it , or by ...
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