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Make - believe is their reality , and the public , which is at once their material and their judge , is also their dupe . Because make - believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe .
Make - believe is their reality , and the public , which is at once their material and their judge , is also their dupe . Because make - believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe .
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With my mind at all events I ceased to believe in God ; I felt the exhilaration of a new freedom . But we do not believe only with our minds ; in some deep recess of my soul there lingered still the old dread of hell - fire , and for ...
With my mind at all events I ceased to believe in God ; I felt the exhilaration of a new freedom . But we do not believe only with our minds ; in some deep recess of my soul there lingered still the old dread of hell - fire , and for ...
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He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and , himself a gentleman , he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it . At the time it seemed to me a curious eccentricity .
He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and , himself a gentleman , he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it . At the time it seemed to me a curious eccentricity .
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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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