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Page 14
I asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company . He
told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the
ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incorporated ...
I asked my friend what effect this behaviour had on the rest of the company . He
told me that no one took any notice . He also told me that my grandfather was the
ugliest little man he ever saw . I went once to the building of the Incorporated ...
Page 56
When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked
myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so
completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of
flowers at ...
When I have heard judges on the bench moralizing with unction I have asked
myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so
completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of
flowers at ...
Page 141
But when a greater and greater realism , both in motive and in action , is
demanded of him and he is asked not to embroider gaily or romantically upon life
but to copy it , he is robbed of great part of his resources . He is forced to forego
asides ...
But when a greater and greater realism , both in motive and in action , is
demanded of him and he is asked not to embroider gaily or romantically upon life
but to copy it , he is robbed of great part of his resources . He is forced to forego
asides ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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