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Page 92
We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to re- venge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teach- ing of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads ...
We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to re- venge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teach- ing of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads ...
Page 95
His ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of ...
His ideas will be neither more nor less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of ...
Page 126
Nor is reviewing less harmful ; the writer has not the time to read any books but those that directly concern him , and this reading of hundreds of books haphazard , not for the spiritual advantage he may gain from them but to give a ...
Nor is reviewing less harmful ; the writer has not the time to read any books but those that directly concern him , and this reading of hundreds of books haphazard , not for the spiritual advantage he may gain from them but to give a ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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