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I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
I hesitated , because I knew that he judged from a standpoint of excellence that is hard to attain ; and though I was aware that he had a profound knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me ...
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In each case it is special knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and so has the artizan . It is a silly prejudice of the intellectual that his is the only one that counts . The True , the Good and the Beautiful are ...
In each case it is special knowledge . The stockbroker has his knowledge too and so has the artizan . It is a silly prejudice of the intellectual that his is the only one that counts . The True , the Good and the Beautiful are ...
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The reading public has enormously increased during the last thirty years and there is a large mass of ignorant people who want knowledge that can be acquired with little labour . They have thought that they were learning something when ...
The reading public has enormously increased during the last thirty years and there is a large mass of ignorant people who want knowledge that can be acquired with little labour . They have thought that they were learning something when ...
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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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