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This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they ...
This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they ...
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have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
have nothing much to do with the theme , have given them a peculiar sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discom- fort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the ...
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In a few words it is to the effect that without God there is no guarantee that the sense of duty , which presupposes a free and real self , is not an illusion and therefore that it is morally necessary to believe in God .
In a few words it is to the effect that without God there is no guarantee that the sense of duty , which presupposes a free and real self , is not an illusion and therefore that it is morally necessary to believe in God .
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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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