Name: Adventures and Enthusiasms
Author: E. V. Lucas
ISBN: 978-1546812647

Literature & Fiction | Essays & Correspondence

Adventures and Enthusiasms

By E. V. Lucas 30 Mar, 2021

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There are certain qualities that we all claim. We are probably wrong, of course, but wedeceive ourselves into believing that, short as we may fall in other ways, we really can dothis or that superlatively well. "I'll say this for myself," we remark, ... Read more

There are certain qualities that we all claim. We are probably wrong, of course, but wedeceive ourselves into believing that, short as we may fall in other ways, we really can dothis or that superlatively well. "I'll say this for myself," we remark, with an approvingglance in the mirror, "at any rate I'm a good listener"; or, "Whatever I may not be, I'm agood host." These are things that may be asserted of oneself, by oneself, without undueconceit. "I pride myself on being a wit," a man may not say; or "I am not ashamed of beingthe handsomest man in London;" but no one resents the tone of those other arrogations, even if their truth is denied Less

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E. V. Lucas

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Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Born to a Quaker fam...

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