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... for the young are themselves only with timidity , but it takes him time to convince that body of persons , whom he will eventually rather pompously call his public , that he has something to give them that they want .
... for the young are themselves only with timidity , but it takes him time to convince that body of persons , whom he will eventually rather pompously call his public , that he has something to give them that they want .
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The author seldom has the wish to give of- fence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of liveli- hood , situates them perhaps in a ...
The author seldom has the wish to give of- fence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of liveli- hood , situates them perhaps in a ...
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To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the ...
To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the ...
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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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