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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
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XX I WOULD not claim for a moment that those years I spent at St. Thomas's Hospital gave me a complete knowledge of human nature . I do not suppose anyone can hope to have that . I have been studying it , consciously and subconsciously ...
XX I WOULD not claim for a moment that those years I spent at St. Thomas's Hospital gave me a complete knowledge of human nature . I do not suppose anyone can hope to have that . I have been studying it , consciously and subconsciously ...
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By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily ...
By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert pitch , he sees it , with its infinite diversity , in the healthy way that mankind at large sees it . In Matthew Arnold's phrase he sees it steadily ...
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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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