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Page 136
I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had been moving ; my success as a play- wright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the ...
I felt that I had got all that I was capable of getting out of the world in which I had been moving ; my success as a play- wright and the luxurious existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the ...
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... life if one could think that they were but the necessary 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 existence a greater happiness ...
... life if one could think that they were but the necessary 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 existence a greater happiness ...
Page 190
Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
Arguments have been adduced to prove the existence of God , and I will ask the reader to have patience with me while I briefly consider them . One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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