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I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have
always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links
his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me
and I ...
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have
always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links
his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me
and I ...
Page 101
sey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand
Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I ,
remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about
learning ...
sey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thousand
Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I ,
remembering that Cato had begun to learn Greek when he was eighty , set about
learning ...
Page 103
I was never stage - struck . I have known dramatists who wandered in every night
to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to
see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could ...
I was never stage - struck . I have known dramatists who wandered in every night
to the theatre in which their play was being acted . They said they did it in order to
see that the cast was not getting slack : I suspect it was because they could ...
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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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