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The feat is exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed ...
The feat is exciting enough to make it worth his while to risk a tumble . I was much disconcerted by the claim that I found here and there advanced that philosophy was the province of the higher mathematicians ; and though it seemed ...
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It is no good for the ęstheticians to say that you ought not to be moved by a picture or a symphony because it fills you with erotic excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its ...
It is no good for the ęstheticians to say that you ought not to be moved by a picture or a symphony because it fills you with erotic excitement or melts you to tears by reminding you of some long- forgotten scene , or through its ...
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associations of the word lend it an emotion that makes it more exciting than plain goodness . Good- ness in comparison is a trifle dull . But love has two meanings , love pure and simple , sexual love , namely ; and loving - kindness .
associations of the word lend it an emotion that makes it more exciting than plain goodness . Good- ness in comparison is a trifle dull . But love has two meanings , love pure and simple , sexual love , namely ; and loving - kindness .
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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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