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... xxi Besides teaching me something about human nature my training in a medical school furnished me with an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature .
... xxi Besides teaching me something about human nature my training in a medical school furnished me with an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature .
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One idea suggests another ; it is very pleasant to pursue it , even though it is not directly concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must ...
One idea suggests another ; it is very pleasant to pursue it , even though it is not directly concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must ...
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book did for me what I wanted , and when it was issued to the world ( a world in the throes of a ter- rible war and too much concerned with its own suf- ferings to bother with the adventures of a creature of fiction ) I found myself ...
book did for me what I wanted , and when it was issued to the world ( a world in the throes of a ter- rible war and too much concerned with its own suf- ferings to bother with the adventures of a creature of fiction ) I found myself ...
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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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