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Page 87
... a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a
thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more
merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to
find out ...
... a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a
thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more
merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to
find out ...
Page 186
It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in
the end in doing something else ; he will draw a complete picture of himself . At
all events to think thus is a consolation when you cast your eye over the
publishers ...
It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in
the end in doing something else ; he will draw a complete picture of himself . At
all events to think thus is a consolation when you cast your eye over the
publishers ...
Page 260
Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing
environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and
there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that
they ...
Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing
environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and
there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that
they ...
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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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