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Page 169
... I should have got the usual hospital appointments , gone as assistant to
general practitioners in various parts of the country , and done locums ; I should
thus have acquired a mass of valuable experience . If my books had been
refused one ...
... I should have got the usual hospital appointments , gone as assistant to
general practitioners in various parts of the country , and done locums ; I should
thus have acquired a mass of valuable experience . If my books had been
refused one ...
Page 213
So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a
common experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of
a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is
just ...
So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a
common experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of
a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is
just ...
Page 270
The mystics have narrated their experience so often , and in terms so similar , that
I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one
occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have ...
The mystics have narrated their experience so often , and in terms so similar , that
I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one
occasion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have ...
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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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