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One of the most curious things that has forced itself on my notice is that there is no permanence in the judgment of beauty . The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful , but which ...
One of the most curious things that has forced itself on my notice is that there is no permanence in the judgment of beauty . The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful , but which ...
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know that anyone has studied the effect of time on the creation of beauty . It is not only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better ; it is rather that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to ...
know that anyone has studied the effect of time on the creation of beauty . It is not only that we grow to see the beauty of things as we know them better ; it is rather that the delight that succeeding ages take in them somehow adds to ...
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If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility ...
If beauty is one of the great values of life , then it seems hard to believe that the ęsthetic sense which enables men to appreciate it should be the privilege only of a class . It is not possible to maintain that a form of sensibility ...
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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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