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These are grave disadvantages both to the writer and the man . I have had to make the best of them . I have fol- lowed the pattern I made with persistence . I do not claim that it was a perfect one . I think. THE SUMMING UP 33 ...
These are grave disadvantages both to the writer and the man . I have had to make the best of them . I have fol- lowed the pattern I made with persistence . I do not claim that it was a perfect one . I think. THE SUMMING UP 33 ...
Page 161
61 THAT IS A CLAIM that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not ame- nable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
61 THAT IS A CLAIM that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not ame- nable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
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is the only value that seems in this world of appearances to have any claim to be an end in itself . Virtue is its own reward . I am ashamed to have reached so common- place a conclusion . With my instinct for effect I should have liked ...
is the only value that seems in this world of appearances to have any claim to be an end in itself . Virtue is its own reward . I am ashamed to have reached so common- place a conclusion . With my instinct for effect I should have liked ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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