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The passing moment is all we can be sure of ; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little ...
The passing moment is all we can be sure of ; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little ...
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I desired to feel the common pains and enjoy the common pleasures that are part of the com- mon human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever ...
I desired to feel the common pains and enjoy the common pleasures that are part of the com- mon human lot . I saw no reason to subordinate the claims of sense to the tempting lure of spirit and I was determined to get whatever ...
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It is not sure that he can be trusted when he reacts to the common impulses of men so unaccountably . And indeed the artist , to the indignation of mankind , has never felt himself bound by ordinary standards . Why should he ?
It is not sure that he can be trusted when he reacts to the common impulses of men so unaccountably . And indeed the artist , to the indignation of mankind , has never felt himself bound by ordinary standards . Why should he ?
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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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