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From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
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He ordered a great quantity of glass on which he had engraved a sign against the Evil Eye which he had found in Morocco and which the reader may see on the cover of this book . It was a white house and the shutters were painted red .
He ordered a great quantity of glass on which he had engraved a sign against the Evil Eye which he had found in Morocco and which the reader may see on the cover of this book . It was a white house and the shutters were painted red .
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Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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