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In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will ...
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will ...
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They have had an uneasy feeling that the whole thing was a sham . ' What arrant humbugs these people are l ' they say . But the point of the writer is that he is not one man but many . It is because he is many that he can create many ...
They have had an uneasy feeling that the whole thing was a sham . ' What arrant humbugs these people are l ' they say . But the point of the writer is that he is not one man but many . It is because he is many that he can create many ...
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lives and this confused body of ideas and feelings is enough . ... I wanted to discover whether I was a free agent or whether my feeling that I could mould myself according to my will was an illusion ; I wanted to know whether life had ...
lives and this confused body of ideas and feelings is enough . ... I wanted to discover whether I was a free agent or whether my feeling that I could mould myself according to my will was an illusion ; I wanted to know whether life had ...
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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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