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An old solicitor , whom I knew when I was a boy , told me that as an articled clerk he was once invited to dine with my grandfather . My grandfather carved the beef and then a servant handed him a dish of potatoes baked in their skins .
An old solicitor , whom I knew when I was a boy , told me that as an articled clerk he was once invited to dine with my grandfather . My grandfather carved the beef and then a servant handed him a dish of potatoes baked in their skins .
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It is very hard to discover the exact point where the idiom one has formed to express oneself has lost its tang . As Dr Johnson said : ' He that has once studiously formed a style , rarely writes afterwards with complete ease .
It is very hard to discover the exact point where the idiom one has formed to express oneself has lost its tang . As Dr Johnson said : ' He that has once studiously formed a style , rarely writes afterwards with complete ease .
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He had no time now even to read so few and he ordered his wise men once more to reduce their number and in a single volume give him an epitome of human knowledge so that he might learn at last what it was so important for him to know .
He had no time now even to read so few and he ordered his wise men once more to reduce their number and in a single volume give him an epitome of human knowledge so that he might learn at last what it was so important for him to know .
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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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