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The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure ; indeed , sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop . The keenest pleasure to which the body is susceptible is that of ...
The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure ; indeed , sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop . The keenest pleasure to which the body is susceptible is that of ...
Page 40
I have never seen people all of a piece . It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and for all that yield a plausible harmony . I have often asked myself how characteristics , seemingly ...
I have never seen people all of a piece . It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and for all that yield a plausible harmony . I have often asked myself how characteristics , seemingly ...
Page 47
I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubt- less partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own ...
I have seen men since as I saw them then , and thus have I drawn them . It may not be a true picture and I know that many have thought it an unpleasant one . It is doubt- less partial , for naturally I have seen men through my own ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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