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I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubt- • less partial , for naturally I have seen men [ 67 ] THE SUMMING ...
I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubt- • less partial , for naturally I have seen men [ 67 ] THE SUMMING ...
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less partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently .
less partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently .
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I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to capture the modern spirit and dis- mayed when [ 154 ] THE SUMMING UP.
I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to capture the modern spirit and dis- mayed when [ 154 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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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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