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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
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By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at con- cert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it ...
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at con- cert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it ...
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On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration and they have only copied it directly from time to time when their imagination had taken them so far from it that a return was felt necessary . In painting and sculpture it ...
On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration and they have only copied it directly from time to time when their imagination had taken them so far from it that a return was felt necessary . In painting and sculpture it ...
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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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