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On the whole I think the most interesting and consist- ently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intel- ligent [ 4 ] THE ...
On the whole I think the most interesting and consist- ently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intel- ligent [ 4 ] THE ...
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No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has pre- vented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direc- tion of interest ; their disappointment with ...
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has pre- vented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direc- tion of interest ; their disappointment with ...
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At the present day , living as we do in an age of specialization , I have a notion that on the whole the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson ...
At the present day , living as we do in an age of specialization , I have a notion that on the whole the cobbler does best to stick to his last . Because I had heard that Dryden had learnt to write English from his study of Tillotson ...
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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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