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I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in
myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me
. Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are
wrong ...
I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in
myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me
. Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are
wrong ...
Page 299
So ästhetics have been derived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of
vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I
should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind ,
founded ...
So ästhetics have been derived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of
vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I
should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind ,
founded ...
Page 307
In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emotion
something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better
part of goodness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists and
...
In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emotion
something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better
part of goodness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists and
...
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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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