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... that is of moment to the point at issue . From the familiarity with Maupassant that I gained at an early age , from my training as a dramatist , and perhaps from personal idiosyncrasy , I have , it may be , 148 THE SUMMING UP.
... that is of moment to the point at issue . From the familiarity with Maupassant that I gained at an early age , from my training as a dramatist , and perhaps from personal idiosyncrasy , I have , it may be , 148 THE SUMMING UP.
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W. Somerset Maugham. personal idiosyncrasy , I have , it may be , acquired a sense of form that is pleasing to the French . At all events they find me neither sentimental nor verbose . 57 IT IS VERY SELDOM that life provides the writer ...
W. Somerset Maugham. personal idiosyncrasy , I have , it may be , acquired a sense of form that is pleasing to the French . At all events they find me neither sentimental nor verbose . 57 IT IS VERY SELDOM that life provides the writer ...
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... idiosyncrasy . Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval ...
... idiosyncrasy . Sometimes he has flaunted his difference from what he was inclined to call the common herd by wilful eccentricity and to épater le bourgeois has paraded the red waistcoat of Théophile Gautier or , like Gérard de Nerval ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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