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New at IWP Books:The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Selected and Edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1912. “Handicapped people sometimes owe their success to the misfortune which weights them. They seldom know beforehand how far they are going to reach, and this helps them; for if they…Read the post →
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New at IWP Books:The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, Selected and Edited by Henry Festing Jones, 1912. “There is no excuse for amateur work being bad.…
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From William James, 1890, The Principles of Psychology. “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's…
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1949
Moments With (and Without) Horace
Gardner Wade Earle
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1931
The Tempo of Modern Life
James Truslow Adams
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1934
Chapters for the Orthodox
Don Marquis
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1952
The Singing Sands
Josephine Tey (pseud. of Elizabeth MacKintosh)
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The Complete Mr. Dooley
Finley Peter Dunne
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1911
Tobogganing on Parnassus
Franklin P. Adams
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1969
Saint-Watching
Phyllis McGinley
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1951
Two Cheers for Democracy
E. M. Forster
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