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and if you have no philosophical training its implications will doubtless escape
you ; but no one with any education at all can fail to understand exactly what the
meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with more grace
...
and if you have no philosophical training its implications will doubtless escape
you ; but no one with any education at all can fail to understand exactly what the
meaning of each sentence is . Few people have written English with more grace
...
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not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran . nical things , they exist for
their meanings , and if you will not pay attention to these , you cannot pay
attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that
will suit it ...
not bother about the meaning . But words are tyran . nical things , they exist for
their meanings , and if you will not pay attention to these , you cannot pay
attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that
will suit it ...
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you ; it may have
other and much more profound meanings for the critic , but at second hand they
can be of small service to you . I do not read a book for the book's sake , but for
my ...
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you ; it may have
other and much more profound meanings for the critic , but at second hand they
can be of small service to you . I do not read a book for the book's sake , but for
my ...
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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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