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On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for ...
On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for ...
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But that seemed to me unsatisfactory . During the rehearsals I had come in contact with the people who were interested in the society and especially with Granville Barker , who played the leading part in my play .
But that seemed to me unsatisfactory . During the rehearsals I had come in contact with the people who were interested in the society and especially with Granville Barker , who played the leading part in my play .
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When I have observed the peasantry in those favoured lands in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me ...
When I have observed the peasantry in those favoured lands in which the earth produces her plenty without excessive labour , where the pleasures and pains of the individual are those incidental to the human race , it has seemed to me ...
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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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