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For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception ...
For French is the common language of educated men and it is certainly convenient to speak it well enough to be able to treat of any subject of discourse that may arise . It has a great literature ; other countries , with the exception ...
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is eschewed , sentences are broken , for it is said that in ordinary life people speak ungrammatically and in short or unfinished sentences , and a vocabulary has been em- ployed in which only the simplest and most ordinary words are ...
is eschewed , sentences are broken , for it is said that in ordinary life people speak ungrammatically and in short or unfinished sentences , and a vocabulary has been em- ployed in which only the simplest and most ordinary words are ...
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But the English - speak ing writer has the potentiality of such an enormous pub- lic that writing can very reasonably be adopted as a pro fession . It would be more overcrowded than it is if in English - speaking countries the ...
But the English - speak ing writer has the potentiality of such an enormous pub- lic that writing can very reasonably be adopted as a pro fession . It would be more overcrowded than it is if in English - speaking countries the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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