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Page 33
These are grave disadvantages both to the writer and the man . I have had to make the best of them . I have fol- lowed the pattern I made with persistence . I do not claim that it was a perfect one . I think. THE SUMMING UP 33 ...
These are grave disadvantages both to the writer and the man . I have had to make the best of them . I have fol- lowed the pattern I made with persistence . I do not claim that it was a perfect one . I think. THE SUMMING UP 33 ...
Page 74
It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author ...
It is the perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author ...
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One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and ...
One of them assumes that man has an idea of a perfect being ; and since perfection includes existence a perfect being must exist . Another maintains that every event has a cause and since the universe exists it must have a cause and ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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