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The English are a political nation and I was often asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great ...
The English are a political nation and I was often asked to houses where politics were the ruling interest . I could not discover in the eminent states- men I met there any marked capacity . I concluded , perhaps rashly , that no great ...
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When I have seen the great ones of the earth , so upright and dignified , sitting in state I have often asked myself whether at such moments they ever remem- bered how their minds in solitude were sometimes occupied and whether it ever ...
When I have seen the great ones of the earth , so upright and dignified , sitting in state I have often asked myself whether at such moments they ever remem- bered how their minds in solitude were sometimes occupied and whether it ever ...
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When I have heard judges on the bench . moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of ...
When I have heard judges on the bench . moralizing with unction I have asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of ...
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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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