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... study of the old masters ( for though the spirit is willing , the flesh is weak ) , I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better . I discovered my limitations and it seemed to me that the only sensible thing was ...
... study of the old masters ( for though the spirit is willing , the flesh is weak ) , I have continued with increasing assiduity to try to write better . I discovered my limitations and it seemed to me that the only sensible thing was ...
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... to the spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but ...
... to the spirit new avenues of beauty and enabled it to get into touch with the mystical kingdom of God . They claimed that it strengthened the character , purified it from its human grossness and brought to him who did not avoid but ...
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That spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , has at least a grandeur that satisfies the ...
That spirit , if spirit it may be called , self - created and independent of all other existence , though all that exists , exists in it , the sole source of life in all that lives , has at least a grandeur that satisfies the ...
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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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