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Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is im- ...
Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is im- ...
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But when a greater and greater realism , both in motive and in action , is demanded of him and he is asked not to embroider gaily or romantically upon life but to copy it , he is robbed of great part of his resources . He is forced to ...
But when a greater and greater realism , both in motive and in action , is demanded of him and he is asked not to embroider gaily or romantically upon life but to copy it , he is robbed of great part of his resources . He is forced to ...
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This course , indeed , was forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether .
This course , indeed , was forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether .
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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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