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You feel the man in his phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of his own ideal vision . ( And the man within us is as true in reality as the man , pitiful ...
You feel the man in his phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of his own ideal vision . ( And the man within us is as true in reality as the man , pitiful ...
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When once I happened to do a friend a good turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel ...
When once I happened to do a friend a good turn ( for what reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel ...
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I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
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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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