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When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remem- bering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about learning Russian , but I had by then lost my youthful enthusiasm ; I never got farther than being able to read ...
When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remem- bering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about learning Russian , but I had by then lost my youthful enthusiasm ; I never got farther than being able to read ...
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It is very well to be able to read French as easily as if it were your native tongue . There are limits , however , to the excellence with which you should allow yourself to speak it ...
It is very well to be able to read French as easily as if it were your native tongue . There are limits , however , to the excellence with which you should allow yourself to speak it ...
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I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of . It cannot be learnt . It can exist without education or culture . It is a faculty that enables the playwright so to put words that they carry across the ...
I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of . It cannot be learnt . It can exist without education or culture . It is a faculty that enables the playwright so to put words that they carry across the ...
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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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