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I like to think that the novels were read and the ballads sung by Octave Feuillet's high - born heroines . I have a little photograph of her , a middleaged woman in a crinoline with fine eyes ...
I like to think that the novels were read and the ballads sung by Octave Feuillet's high - born heroines . I have a little photograph of her , a middleaged woman in a crinoline with fine eyes ...
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The doctor is discreet . It is his business to listen and no details are intimate for his ears . But of course human nature may be displayed before you and if you have not the eyes to see [ 64 ] THE SUMMING UP.
The doctor is discreet . It is his business to listen and no details are intimate for his ears . But of course human nature may be displayed before you and if you have not the eyes to see [ 64 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint .
You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint .
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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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