Principiaba a creerse una nulidad, y allá en sus soliloquios desesperados, cuando le salía mal alguna de las bajezas con que se procuraba dinero, se escarnecía sinceramente, diciéndose: «soy pior que una caballería; soy más tonto que un cerrojo; no sirvo absolutamente para nada».
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He was beginning to see himself as a good-for-nothing, and in his desperate soliloquies, when one of the despicable acts he employed in order to earn money went wrong, he would mock himself sincerely, saying: "I’m worse than a horse; I’m more stupid than a bolt; I’m absolutely useless."
Translated by soybeba 50377 2 weeks ago
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He was beginning to see himself as a good-for-nothing, and in his desperate soliloquies, when one of the despicable acts he employed to in order to earn money went wrong, he would mock himself sincerely, saying: "I’m worse than a horse; I’m more stupid than a bolt; I’m absolutely useless."
Translated by soybeba 50377 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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one of the despicable acts he employed XX in order ... / one of the despicable acts he resorted to in order ...

by marina 2 weeks ago