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Page 34
... delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the ... delight as I might have . I have exercised moderation because I was hard to please . When from time to time I have ...
... delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the ... delight as I might have . I have exercised moderation because I was hard to please . When from time to time I have ...
Page 132
... delight a clique and never reach the great public will never delight posterity , for posterity will never hear about them . It is a consolation to the popular authors who have had it 132 THE SUMMING UP.
... delight a clique and never reach the great public will never delight posterity , for posterity will never hear about them . It is a consolation to the popular authors who have had it 132 THE SUMMING UP.
Page 155
... delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the dancing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists un- impaired is shown by the vogue of the detective novel . The most ...
... delight in listening to stories is as natural to human nature as the delight in looking at the dancing and miming out of which drama arose . That it exists un- impaired is shown by the vogue of the detective novel . The most ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe Bertrand Russell better character comedy common consciousness course critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feel fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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