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One might have thought that the only use of culture was to enable one to talk
nonsense with distinction. On the whole I think the most interesting and
consistently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse. He had read a great
deal, ...
One might have thought that the only use of culture was to enable one to talk
nonsense with distinction. On the whole I think the most interesting and
consistently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse. He had read a great
deal, ...
Page 64
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves. They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor, but they lie more
consistently, ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves. They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor, but they lie more
consistently, ...
Page 277
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to
enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no
higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his
practice.
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to
enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no
higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his
practice.
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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