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I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
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So æsthetics have been derived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body ...
So æsthetics have been derived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body ...
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In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emo- tion something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better part of good- ness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which ...
In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emo- tion something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better part of good- ness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which ...
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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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