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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... one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading the rest of one's life without concern for the future . When I have finished this book I shall know where I stand ...
... one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading the rest of one's life without concern for the future . When I have finished this book I shall know where I stand ...
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... one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is spent , one's masters at school , other boys and girls - the boy knows a great deal about them . He sees them with ...
... one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is spent , one's masters at school , other boys and girls - the boy knows a great deal about them . He sees them with ...
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... one's own life if one could think that they were but the neces- sary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another exist- ence a greater ...
... one's own life if one could think that they were but the neces- sary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another exist- ence a greater ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth