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My mother was very small , with large brown eyes and hair of a rich reddish gold ,
exquisite features and a lovely skin . She was very much admired . One of her
great friends was Lady Anglesey , an American woman who died at an advanced
...
My mother was very small , with large brown eyes and hair of a rich reddish gold ,
exquisite features and a lovely skin . She was very much admired . One of her
great friends was Lady Anglesey , an American woman who died at an advanced
...
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You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no
scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the
humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint . But if to see men one - sidedly
is a ...
You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no
scope to your sense of the ridiculous . The humorist has a quick eye for the
humbug ; he does not always recognize the saint . But if to see men one - sidedly
is a ...
Page 170
I failed from my ignorance of the very simple device of seeing the diverse events
and the characters that took part in them through the eyes of a single person . It is
a device which of course the autobiographical novel has used for centuries , but ...
I failed from my ignorance of the very simple device of seeing the diverse events
and the characters that took part in them through the eyes of a single person . It is
a device which of course the autobiographical novel has used for centuries , but ...
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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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