The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
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... what I could not but think more important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deeprooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ...
... what I could not but think more important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deeprooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ...
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In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emotion something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better part of goodness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this ...
In loving - kindness the sexual instinct is sublimated , but it lends the emotion something of its own warm and vitalizing energy . Loving - kindness is the better part of goodness . It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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