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I know now that all they had was the nat- ural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
I know now that all they had was the nat- ural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
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For the complete life , the perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would . be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the ...
For the complete life , the perfect pattern , includes old age as well as youth and maturity . The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good , but it would . be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the ...
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It is something that envy , which so often poisons youth , should be assuaged by the extinction of desire . But these are negative com- pensations ; old age has positive compensations also . Paradoxical as it may sound it has more time ...
It is something that envy , which so often poisons youth , should be assuaged by the extinction of desire . But these are negative com- pensations ; old age has positive compensations also . Paradoxical as it may sound it has more time ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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