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I ceased to travel because I felt that travel could give me nothing more . I was
capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My
mood was complete acceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give
me .
I ceased to travel because I felt that travel could give me nothing more . I was
capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My
mood was complete acceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give
me .
Page 215
The author seldom has the wish to give of . fence and he uses what means he
can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different
places , gives them another means of livelihood , situates them perhaps in a
different ...
The author seldom has the wish to give of . fence and he uses what means he
can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different
places , gives them another means of livelihood , situates them perhaps in a
different ...
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To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to give life some kind of sense .
Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have
superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion
that ...
To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to give life some kind of sense .
Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have
superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion
that ...
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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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