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I liked life and wanted to enjoy it . I wanted to get all I possibly could out of it . I was not satis- fied with the appreciation of a small band of intel- lectuals . I had my doubts about their quality , for I had been to a stupid and ...
I liked life and wanted to enjoy it . I wanted to get all I possibly could out of it . I was not satis- fied with the appreciation of a small band of intel- lectuals . I had my doubts about their quality , for I had been to a stupid and ...
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I wanted to see what I could do with more complicated subjects , I wanted to make one or two small technical experi- ments which I thought would be theatrically effective , and I wanted to see how far I could go with the pub- lic .
I wanted to see what I could do with more complicated subjects , I wanted to make one or two small technical experi- ments which I thought would be theatrically effective , and I wanted to see how far I could go with the pub- lic .
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I wanted to recover my peace of mind shattered through my own foolish- ness and vanity by occurrences upon which I need not dwell and so made up my mind to go to the South Seas . I had wanted to go ever since as a youth I had read The ...
I wanted to recover my peace of mind shattered through my own foolish- ness and vanity by occurrences upon which I need not dwell and so made up my mind to go to the South Seas . I had wanted to go ever since as a youth I had read The ...
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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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