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A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust ... You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous .
A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust ... You tend to close your eyes to truth , beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous .
Page 77
It affords him a delight in comparison with which the pleasures of sense are pale and it affords him the assurance of his freedom . One cannot wonder if sometimes he is unwilling to exchange its enjoyment for the drudgery and loss of ...
It affords him a delight in comparison with which the pleasures of sense are pale and it affords him the assurance of his freedom . One cannot wonder if sometimes he is unwilling to exchange its enjoyment for the drudgery and loss of ...
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The psychologists tell us that with the ordinary man an image is less vivid than a sensation . It is an attenuated experience that serves to give information about objects of sense and in the world of sense is a guide to action .
The psychologists tell us that with the ordinary man an image is less vivid than a sensation . It is an attenuated experience that serves to give information about objects of sense and in the world of sense is a guide to action .
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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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