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Page 192
I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had
been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had
brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the ...
I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had
been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had
brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the ...
Page 264
It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that
they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and
the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than ...
It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that
they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and
the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than ...
Page 268
But though men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in
themselves that does not prove that God does not exist . It proves only that the
religions that men have accepted are but blind alleys cut into an impenetrable
jungle ...
But though men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in
themselves that does not prove that God does not exist . It proves only that the
religions that men have accepted are but blind alleys cut into an impenetrable
jungle ...
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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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