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If I had been less ignorant I might have seen that the opinions that seemed to me so original were theirs only at second - hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination .
If I had been less ignorant I might have seen that the opinions that seemed to me so original were theirs only at second - hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination .
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We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads ...
We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads ...
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find less to satisfy me . It may be that the evils we endure educate us and so make us better ; but observation does not allow us to think that this is a universal rule . It may be that courage and sympathy are excellent and that they ...
find less to satisfy me . It may be that the evils we endure educate us and so make us better ; but observation does not allow us to think that this is a universal rule . It may be that courage and sympathy are excellent and that they ...
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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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