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Page 99
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
Page 102
William Somerset Maugham. quite seize . It is hard enough for us to know our own people ; we deceive ourselves , we English especially , if we think we can know those of other lands . For the sea - girt isle sets us apart and the link ...
William Somerset Maugham. quite seize . It is hard enough for us to know our own people ; we deceive ourselves , we English especially , if we think we can know those of other lands . For the sea - girt isle sets us apart and the link ...
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... hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been accepted by the wisest men , the sages of the East , the philosophers of Greece , the great Scholastics , should not have a foundation in fact ...
... hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been accepted by the wisest men , the sages of the East , the philosophers of Greece , the great Scholastics , should not have a foundation in fact ...
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