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and if you have no philosophical training its impli- cations will doubtless escape you ; but no one with any education at all can fail to understand exactly what the meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with ...
and if you have no philosophical training its impli- cations will doubtless escape you ; but no one with any education at all can fail to understand exactly what the meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with ...
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... but it is a dangerous procedure , and when they deal with matters that are of pressing concern to all re- flective persons , one can only regret that they cannot make their meaning so plain that all who read may understand .
... but it is a dangerous procedure , and when they deal with matters that are of pressing concern to all re- flective persons , one can only regret that they cannot make their meaning so plain that all who read may understand .
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effect on one's behaviour , one has to make up one's mind what is the meaning and use of life . If death ends all , if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil , I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these ...
effect on one's behaviour , one has to make up one's mind what is the meaning and use of life . If death ends all , if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil , I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these ...
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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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