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No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with ...
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with ...
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I was a trifle vexed , for it is a very different thing to tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips ...
I was a trifle vexed , for it is a very different thing to tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compliment of saying that he had heard it all from my own lips ...
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But , if not amorous , the English are sentimental and emotional , and they felt that it was not the whole truth . When other dramatists repeated it , not because it was , as with Shaw , a natural expression of a personality ...
But , if not amorous , the English are sentimental and emotional , and they felt that it was not the whole truth . When other dramatists repeated it , not because it was , as with Shaw , a natural expression of a personality ...
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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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