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A great part of our lives is occupied in reverie , and the more imaginative we are , the more varied and vivid this will be . How many of us could face having our reveries automatically registered and set before us ?
A great part of our lives is occupied in reverie , and the more imaginative we are , the more varied and vivid this will be . How many of us could face having our reveries automatically registered and set before us ?
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Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , in- vested them with a halo .
Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they played , the verse they spoke , in- vested them with a halo .
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It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries . And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ...
It is close to us in point of time so that with a very small effort of imagination we can put ourselves into the men who made it . They are almost contemporaries . And what they did and what they thought affect the lives we lead today ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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