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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 76
If he is a writer he will fulfil some need in the nature of his readers and they will
lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life
circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this
idiosyncrasy does not ...
If he is a writer he will fulfil some need in the nature of his readers and they will
lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life
circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this
idiosyncrasy does not ...
Page 77
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at
concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that
mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily and sees
it whole .
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at
concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that
mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily and sees
it whole .
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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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