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But a pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot ... then as a part of the pattern I was attempting to draw to experience all the pleasures of sense .
But a pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot ... then as a part of the pattern I was attempting to draw to experience all the pleasures of sense .
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to the amateur , much more , I suppose , than to the professional it affords matter for that reverie which is the most delicious pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to ...
to the amateur , much more , I suppose , than to the professional it affords matter for that reverie which is the most delicious pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to ...
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... at all events does not set himself on a pedestal from which to look down on his fellow- men . The value of art , like the value of the Mystic Way , lies in its effects . If it can only give pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure ...
... at all events does not set himself on a pedestal from which to look down on his fellow- men . The value of art , like the value of the Mystic Way , lies in its effects . If it can only give pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure ...
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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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