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There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all ...
There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all ...
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There is no reason to believe that what you desire exists , but it is a hard saying that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove ; there is no reason why you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks ...
There is no reason to believe that what you desire exists , but it is a hard saying that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove ; there is no reason why you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks ...
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The spectators of a play and the readers of a book insist on knowing the reasons of action and they will not admit its probability unless the reasons are cogent . Each person must behave in character ...
The spectators of a play and the readers of a book insist on knowing the reasons of action and they will not admit its probability unless the reasons are cogent . Each person must behave in character ...
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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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