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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
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It did not take me long to discover that , beyond learning a good deal about the technique of playwriting , I had achieved nothing . After its two performances my play was dead . My name was known to the small body of people who were ...
It did not take me long to discover that , beyond learning a good deal about the technique of playwriting , I had achieved nothing . After its two performances my play was dead . My name was known to the small body of people who were ...
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I must ask myself then what difference all this makes to me and how I am to deal with these circumstances if I want to make the best use of my life and to get the utmost that I can out of it . Here it is not I that speak , it is the ...
I must ask myself then what difference all this makes to me and how I am to deal with these circumstances if I want to make the best use of my life and to get the utmost that I can out of it . Here it is not I that speak , it is the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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