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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motor - car . In each case it is special knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and ...
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motor - car . In each case it is special knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and ...
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For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception ...
For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception ...
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It is a faculty , like that of being able to play by ear , of no spiritual importance . But without it , though your ideas may be profound , your theme original and your characterisation acute , you will never be able to write a play .
It is a faculty , like that of being able to play by ear , of no spiritual importance . But without it , though your ideas may be profound , your theme original and your characterisation acute , you will never be able to write a play .
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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