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the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and ...
the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and ...
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It has seemed to me that I have now and then been able to put forth an effort that was not wholly determined . If it was an illu- sion it was an illusion that had its own efficacy .
It has seemed to me that I have now and then been able to put forth an effort that was not wholly determined . If it was an illu- sion it was an illusion that had its own efficacy .
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When I have observed the peasantry in those favoured lands in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me ...
When I have observed the peasantry in those favoured lands in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me ...
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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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