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I know Anda- lusia a great deal better now than I knew it then , and I have changed my mind about a good many things of which I wrote . Since it has continued in America to have a small sale it occurred to me that it might be worth ...
I know Anda- lusia a great deal better now than I knew it then , and I have changed my mind about a good many things of which I wrote . Since it has continued in America to have a small sale it occurred to me that it might be worth ...
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mind that is prepared to receive it , and if one man's meat is another man's poison , still more is one man's thought another man's truism . But an audience is af- fected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion .
mind that is prepared to receive it , and if one man's meat is another man's poison , still more is one man's thought another man's truism . But an audience is af- fected by mass suggestion and mass suggestion is excited by emotion .
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So with more courage than discretion I made up my mind that I must write it for myself . I found out what were the books set for the undergraduate to read in or der to take a philosophical degree and laboriously pe- rused them .
So with more courage than discretion I made up my mind that I must write it for myself . I found out what were the books set for the undergraduate to read in or der to take a philosophical degree and laboriously pe- rused them .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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