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But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil . lusion a young lover let him come into her dressingroom and discover her without any make up on her face ...
But its most effective scene , the scene that afterwards made it so successful , was one in which the heroine in order to disil . lusion a young lover let him come into her dressingroom and discover her without any make up on her face ...
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Adults discover themselves , consciously and unconsciously , to the very young as they never do to other adults . And the child , the boy , is aware of his environment , the house he lives in , the countryside or the streets of ...
Adults discover themselves , consciously and unconsciously , to the very young as they never do to other adults . And the child , the boy , is aware of his environment , the house he lives in , the countryside or the streets of ...
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It has , however , been a consolation to me to discover that sometimes even the professional philosophers do not understand one another . Bradley frequently confesses that he is at a loss to understand what someone with whom he is ...
It has , however , been a consolation to me to discover that sometimes even the professional philosophers do not understand one another . Bradley frequently confesses that he is at a loss to understand what someone with whom he is ...
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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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