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That is why Antony and Cleopatra has always been the least popular of Shakespeare's greater plays . Audiences have felt that it was contemptible to throw away an empire for a woman's sake . Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted ...
That is why Antony and Cleopatra has always been the least popular of Shakespeare's greater plays . Audiences have felt that it was contemptible to throw away an empire for a woman's sake . Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted ...
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This is not always true , for at least death finishes all our stories ; but even if it were it would not be a good argument . For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it ...
This is not always true , for at least death finishes all our stories ; but even if it were it would not be a good argument . For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it ...
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Determinism tells us that choice follows the line of least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has ...
Determinism tells us that choice follows the line of least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has ...
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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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