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I know now that all they had was the natural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
I know now that all they had was the natural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
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The world of my twenties was a middleaged world and youth was something to be got through as quickly as possible so that maturity might be reached . The young things of the present day , at least in that middle class to which I belong ...
The world of my twenties was a middleaged world and youth was something to be got through as quickly as possible so that maturity might be reached . The young things of the present day , at least in that middle class to which I belong ...
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For the complete life , the perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the ...
For the complete life , the perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the ...
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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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