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You feel the man in his phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of his own ideal vision . ( And the man within us is as true in reality as the man , pitiful ...
You feel the man in his phrases , not the mean , querulous , disagreeable man that he appeared to the world that knew him , but the man within of his own ideal vision . ( And the man within us is as true in reality as the man , pitiful ...
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He talked to me of Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte .
He talked to me of Italy and Greece , neither of which in point of fact he knew , but he fired my young imagination and I began to learn Italian . I accepted everything he told me with the fervour of the proselyte .
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I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
I knew , that is to say , what I could expect from an audience . Without their collaboration I could do nothing and I knew how far their collaboration could go . I found myself increasingly dissatisfied with this .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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