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Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me, when still so young,
to design a pattern for my life; perhaps it was due to something I discovered in
myself about which I shall have a little to say later. The defect of such an ...
Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me, when still so young,
to design a pattern for my life; perhaps it was due to something I discovered in
myself about which I shall have a little to say later. The defect of such an ...
Page 129
... and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude
. We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would
be scarcely plausible. Perhaps because our passions are less strong, perhaps ...
... and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude
. We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would
be scarcely plausible. Perhaps because our passions are less strong, perhaps ...
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But if we are not certainly bound by the law of cause and effect, then perhaps it is
not an illusion that our wills are free. The bishops and the deans have snatched
at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag ...
But if we are not certainly bound by the law of cause and effect, then perhaps it is
not an illusion that our wills are free. The bishops and the deans have snatched
at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag ...
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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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