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been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of ...
been moving ; my success as a playwright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of ...
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Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
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None of the arguments that have been adduced to prove his existence carries conviction , and belief must rest , as Epicurus put it long ago , on immediate apprehension . That immediate apprehension I have never had .
None of the arguments that have been adduced to prove his existence carries conviction , and belief must rest , as Epicurus put it long ago , on immediate apprehension . That immediate apprehension I have never had .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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