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I have gone into the world because I thought it was necessary in order to get the experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only ...
I have gone into the world because I thought it was necessary in order to get the experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only ...
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For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of ...
For he could not have sufficient experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of ...
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... a sort of experience like that muscular sense that the physiol- ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own ...
... a sort of experience like that muscular sense that the physiol- ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by their own ...
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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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