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His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
His method of teaching me English was to make me read aloud the police - court news in The Standard and I can still remember the horror with which I read the ghastly details of a murder in the train between Paris and Calais .
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It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
It smacks of the English soil . To my mind King James's Bible has been a very harmful influence on English prose . I am not so stupid as to deny its great beauty . It is majestical . But the Bible is an oriental book .
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It was as wonderful as being born an English- man . But when I went to Germany I discovered that the Germans were just as proud of being Germans as I was proud of being English . I heard them say that the English did not understand ...
It was as wonderful as being born an English- man . But when I went to Germany I discovered that the Germans were just as proud of being Germans as I was proud of being English . I heard them say that the English did not understand ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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