The Summing Up |
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All this was a valuable experience to me . I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession . I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there ...
All this was a valuable experience to me . I do not know a better training for a writer than to spend some years in the medical profession . I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there ...
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The solipsist believes only in himself and his experience . He creates the world as the theatre of his activity , and the world he creates consists of him- self and his thoughts and feelings ; and beyond that nothing has being .
The solipsist believes only in himself and his experience . He creates the world as the theatre of his activity , and the world he creates consists of him- self and his thoughts and feelings ; and beyond that nothing has being .
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Com- mon experience , especially the common experience of philosphers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Immortality is too stupendous a notion to be en- tertained in connection with common mortals .
Com- mon experience , especially the common experience of philosphers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Immortality is too stupendous a notion to be en- tertained in connection with common mortals .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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