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... is no hindrance to our achieying also something of their virtues . xxi Besides teaching me something about human nature my training in a medical school furnished me with an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method .
... is no hindrance to our achieying also something of their virtues . xxi Besides teaching me something about human nature my training in a medical school furnished me with an elementary knowledge of science and scientific method .
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In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient knowledge to write about his contemporaries . I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early ...
In the first place it is not true that the young author has not sufficient knowledge to write about his contemporaries . I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early ...
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the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the ...
the past needs not only a vast knowledge but an effort of imagination that is hardly to be expected in the young . I should have said that the truth was exactly contrary to what Andrew Lang said . The novelist should turn to the ...
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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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