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The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in
the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I
have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of ...
The hysteria of the world repels me and I never feel more aloof than when I am in
the midst of a throng surrendered to a violent feeling of mirth or sorrow . Though I
have been in love a good many times I have never experienced the bliss of ...
Page 139
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be ...
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with
sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man
who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will be ...
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... vague feeling , a sort of experience like that muscular sense that the physiol .
ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions
current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by
their ...
... vague feeling , a sort of experience like that muscular sense that the physiol .
ogists not so long ago discovered , which they have absorbed from the notions
current in the society in which they live and which has been faintly modified by
their ...
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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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