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It is , I suppose , these lewd , ugly , base and selfish thoughts , dwelling in their minds against their will , that have tormented the saints when their lives were devoted to good works and repentance had re- deemed the sins of their ...
It is , I suppose , these lewd , ugly , base and selfish thoughts , dwelling in their minds against their will , that have tormented the saints when their lives were devoted to good works and repentance had re- deemed the sins of their ...
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It is very different now , and the difference has been occa- sioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and ...
It is very different now , and the difference has been occa- sioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and ...
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Is it possible to suppose that it will matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the uni- verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ...
Is it possible to suppose that it will matter then that he ever existed ? He will have been a chapter in the history of the uni- verse as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange monsters that inhab- ...
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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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