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At one time I was inclined to think that they owed their illustrious position only to their gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the pub- ...
At one time I was inclined to think that they owed their illustrious position only to their gift of speech , for it must be next door to impossible to rise to power in a demo- cratic community unless you can catch the ears of the pub- ...
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I am not even sure that it depends on any great difference in the artist's natural gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an excep- tional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius .
I am not even sure that it depends on any great difference in the artist's natural gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an excep- tional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius .
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them truthfully his gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside ...
them truthfully his gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are . It is as though he wanted urgently to see a certain thing and by the act of looking at it drew before it a veil that obscured it . The writer stands outside ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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