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Page 64
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves. They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor, but they lie more
consistently, ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves. They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor, but they lie more
consistently, ...
Page 77
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity, as it were at
concert pitch, he sees it, with its infinite diversity, in the healthy way that mankind
at large sees it. In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily and sees it whole.
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity, as it were at
concert pitch, he sees it, with its infinite diversity, in the healthy way that mankind
at large sees it. In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily and sees it whole.
Page 221
On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration and they have
only copied it directly from time to time when their imagination had taken them so
far from it that a return was felt necessary. In painting and sculpture it might even
...
On the whole they have used nature to make a formal decoration and they have
only copied it directly from time to time when their imagination had taken them so
far from it that a return was felt necessary. In painting and sculpture it might even
...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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