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In the same way I have known men of affairs who have made great fortunes and brought vast enterprises to prosperity , but in every- thing unconcerned with their business appear to be devoid even of common sense .
In the same way I have known men of affairs who have made great fortunes and brought vast enterprises to prosperity , but in every- thing unconcerned with their business appear to be devoid even of common sense .
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It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not con- centrated on two or ...
It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not con- centrated on two or ...
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It is known as the proof e consensu gentium . It asserts that all men from the remotest origins have had some sort of belief in God and it is hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been ...
It is known as the proof e consensu gentium . It asserts that all men from the remotest origins have had some sort of belief in God and it is hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been ...
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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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