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The literary world somewhat lacks balance , and when a fancy takes it , is apt to regard it not as a passing fashion , but as Heaven's first law ; and the notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short ...
The literary world somewhat lacks balance , and when a fancy takes it , is apt to regard it not as a passing fashion , but as Heaven's first law ; and the notion prevailed that anyone who had artistic leanings and wanted to write short ...
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The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into existence . There has been great rejoicing , if not in the courts of heaven ...
The bishops and the deans have snatched at this new notion as though it were the devil's tail by which they hoped to drag the old devil himself back into existence . There has been great rejoicing , if not in the courts of heaven ...
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His sermon is most efficacious if he has no notion that he is preaching one . The bee produces wax for her own purposes and is unaware that man will put it to diverse uses . LXXVII IT APPEARS then impossible to say that either truth or ...
His sermon is most efficacious if he has no notion that he is preaching one . The bee produces wax for her own purposes and is unaware that man will put it to diverse uses . LXXVII IT APPEARS then impossible to say that either truth or ...
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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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