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Page 36
... sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it ...
... sense to extract its utmost value from it ; the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now . But common sense avails me little . I do not find the present unsatisfactory ; I merely take it ...
Page 47
... sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appear- ance ...
... sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure- in the discrepancies of human nature ; it leads you to mistrust great professions and look for the unworthy motive that they conceal ; the disparity between appear- ance ...
Page 148
... sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their interest , but have little affected their ...
... sense of reality . It is this , however , that has given the French an acute sense of discomfort . The sermons that Henry James preached to the English on form in the novel aroused their interest , but have little affected their ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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