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Page 55
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget my- self . The hysteria of the world repels ...
I have never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget my- self . The hysteria of the world repels ...
Page 68
He is the comedian who never quite loses himself in the part , for he is at the same time spectator and actor . It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's ...
He is the comedian who never quite loses himself in the part , for he is at the same time spectator and actor . It is all very well to say that poetry is emotion remembered in tran- quility ; but a poet's emotion is specific , a poet's ...
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The result is that I have never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thou- sand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remember- ing that Cato had begun to ...
The result is that I have never read the Odyssey but in English and I have never achieved my ambition to read A Thou- sand Nights and a Night in Arabic . When the intelligentsia took up Russia I , remember- ing that Cato had begun to ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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