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Page 45
... 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 more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
... 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 more consistently , and it may be that for the ...
Page 47
... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ...
... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . This is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ...
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... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It ...
... human nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Voltaire's Candide . It ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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