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Page 64
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's
office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of
themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie more
...
Page 213
We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know
them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of
them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately ; we do not know
them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of
them . People are too elusive , too shadowy , to be copied ; and they are also ...
Page 298
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that
makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to
give it ...
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that
makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this
emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the æsthetic instinct : the term seems to
give it ...
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Bibliographic information
| 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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