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I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
I am devoid of the pedagogic instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do ...
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It is something like an organic thing that develops , not of course only in their brains , but in their heart , their nerves and their viscera , something that their creative instinct evolves out of the experiences of their soul and ...
It is something like an organic thing that develops , not of course only in their brains , but in their heart , their nerves and their viscera , something that their creative instinct evolves out of the experiences of their soul and ...
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rived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind , founded in part on ...
rived from an instinct of expression , an exuberance of vitality , a mystical sense of the absolute and I know not what . For my part I should have said it was not an instinct at all , but a state of the body - mind , founded in part on ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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