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Who has not seen the scholar's thin- lipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
Who has not seen the scholar's thin- lipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
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If he is a novelist he uses his experience of people and places , his apprehension of himself , his love and hate , his deepest thoughts , his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life .
If he is a novelist he uses his experience of people and places , his apprehension of himself , his love and hate , his deepest thoughts , his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life .
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Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena ...
Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena ...
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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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