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reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me ...
reasons , since I knew that all our actions were purely selfish , I did not stop to think ) and wanting to show his gratitude ( which of course he had no business to feel , for my apparent kindness was rigidly determined ) he asked me ...
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I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
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The survivors of the French Revolution claimed that only those who had known the world before that event knew la douceur de vivre . We who were in the full vigour of our youth before the First World War may not unreasonably claim that ...
The survivors of the French Revolution claimed that only those who had known the world before that event knew la douceur de vivre . We who were in the full vigour of our youth before the First World War may not unreasonably claim that ...
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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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