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Page 64
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
Page 157
The present mode , which forces a judge or an eminent physician to express
himself as inadequately as a bar - lounger , grossly misrepresents the truth . It
has narrowed the range of character that the dramatist can deal with , for he can
only ...
The present mode , which forces a judge or an eminent physician to express
himself as inadequately as a bar - lounger , grossly misrepresents the truth . It
has narrowed the range of character that the dramatist can deal with , for he can
only ...
Page 277
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to
enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no
higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his
practice .
We may suppose that consciousness was kindled in man as an instrument to
enable him to deal with his environment and that for long ages it reached no
higher development than was needed to deal with the vital problems of his
practice .
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Bibliographic information
| 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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