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In order not to hurt their feelings I have often acted a passion that I did not feel . I have tried , with gentleness when possible , and if not , with irritation , to escape from the trammels with which their love bound me .
In order not to hurt their feelings I have often acted a passion that I did not feel . I have tried , with gentleness when possible , and if not , with irritation , to escape from the trammels with which their love bound me .
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In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will ...
In France a man who has ruined himself for women is generally regarded with sympathy and admiration ; there is a feeling that it was worth while , and the man who has done it feels even a certain pride in the fact ; in England he will ...
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I went with the feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what he could of the manners of a ... aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive feeling .
I went with the feelings of any traveller interested in art and curious to see what he could of the manners of a ... aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive feeling .
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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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