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As I saw it in my mind's eye my book would have the appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for economy's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected ...
As I saw it in my mind's eye my book would have the appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for economy's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected ...
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Words have weight , sound and appearance ; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to . I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ...
Words have weight , sound and appearance ; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to . I have read many books on English prose , but have found it hard to profit by them ...
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Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human bondage .
Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human bondage .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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