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I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous . They are more often themselves . They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it . Their idiosyncrasies have had more ...
I have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous . They are more often themselves . They have had no need to create a figure to protect themselves from the world or to impress it . Their idiosyncrasies have had more ...
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Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the ...
Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the ...
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One idea suggests another ; it is very pleasant to pursue it , even though it is not directly concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must ...
One idea suggests another ; it is very pleasant to pursue it , even though it is not directly concerned with the subject . The inclination to digress is human . But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must ...
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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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