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I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
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... an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events ...
... an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events ...
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But the king was immersed in affairs of state and could not read so many books , so he bade them go and condense this knowledge into a smaller number . Fifteen years later they returned and their camels carried but five hundred works .
But the king was immersed in affairs of state and could not read so many books , so he bade them go and condense this knowledge into a smaller number . Fifteen years later they returned and their camels carried but five hundred works .
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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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