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There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all ...
There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all ...
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It seems as unlikely that you may not hold reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality , unless you are a mathematical physicist , as that you cannot enjoy a bottle of ...
It seems as unlikely that you may not hold reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality , unless you are a mathematical physicist , as that you cannot enjoy a bottle of ...
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It may be that my heart , having found rest nowhere , had some deep ancestral craving for God and immortality which my reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might ...
It may be that my heart , having found rest nowhere , had some deep ancestral craving for God and immortality which my reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might ...
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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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