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I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
I suppose that you can learn a good deal about human nature in a solicitor's office ; but there on the whole you have to deal with men in full control of themselves . They lie perhaps as much as they lie to the doctor , but they lie ...
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Of course it is from among those who possess by nature this facility that the artist is produced . Without it he cannot have talent ; but it is only a part of talent . We start by living , each one of us , in the solitariness of our own ...
Of course it is from among those who possess by nature this facility that the artist is produced . Without it he cannot have talent ; but it is only a part of talent . We start by living , each one of us , in the solitariness of our own ...
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combination of natural gifts for creation with an idio- syncrasy that enables its possessor to see the world per- sonally ... By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert , pitch , he sees it ...
combination of natural gifts for creation with an idio- syncrasy that enables its possessor to see the world per- sonally ... By a happy accident of nature seeing life with immense vivacity , as it were at concert , pitch , he sees it ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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