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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
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... and what I would not heed because it did not agree with current opinion , is now pretty generally accepted . For all that I still read a great deal of criticism , for I think it a very agreeable form of literary composition .
... and what I would not heed because it did not agree with current opinion , is now pretty generally accepted . For all that I still read a great deal of criticism , for I think it a very agreeable form of literary composition .
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We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to enable him to deal with his en- vironment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice .
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to enable him to deal with his en- vironment and that for long ages it reached no higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his practice .
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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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