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Taking it all in all I am bound to con- clude that the professor at her college would not have given me very high marks . The second lesson I had was given me by a don , both intelligent and charming , who happened to be staying with me ...
Taking it all in all I am bound to con- clude that the professor at her college would not have given me very high marks . The second lesson I had was given me by a don , both intelligent and charming , who happened to be staying with me ...
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... gratitude to the public that has given me , if not fame , at least noto- riety and a fortune that has enabled me to live in the same style as my father lived in before me [ 152 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... gratitude to the public that has given me , if not fame , at least noto- riety and a fortune that has enabled me to live in the same style as my father lived in before me [ 152 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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A bit of love- making thrown in here and there made the informa- tion they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemi- nation of ideas and a good many novelists were will- ing ...
A bit of love- making thrown in here and there made the informa- tion they were given sufficiently palatable . The novel was regarded as a convenient pulpit for the dissemi- nation of ideas and a good many novelists were will- ing ...
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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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