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... Morris . x I do not know whether it was a subconscious feel- ing that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
... Morris . x I do not know whether it was a subconscious feel- ing that this sort of writing was contrary to my bent or a naturally methodical cast of mind that led me then to turn my attention to the writers of the Augustan Period .
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... all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others . We turn our attention away [ 52 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in others . We turn our attention away [ 52 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... if I found life intolerable , I think I should not lack the courage to quit a stage on which I could no longer play my part to my own satisfaction . I wonder why so many 1 L people turn with horror from the thought of suicide .
... if I found life intolerable , I think I should not lack the courage to quit a stage on which I could no longer play my part to my own satisfaction . I wonder why so many 1 L people turn with horror from the thought of suicide .
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Bibliographic information
| 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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