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... Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a miracle of unselfishness . It was really hardly human . " Sometimes it is frankly comic ...
... Sometimes Maugham's irony is more carefully and consciously balanced : " I do not think a thought of self ever entered her untidy head . She was a miracle of unselfishness . It was really hardly human . " Sometimes it is frankly comic ...
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... Sometimes one feels rage and despair that one should know so little the people one loves . One is heart - broken at the im- possibility of understanding them , of getting right down into their heart of hearts . Sometimes , accidentally ...
... Sometimes one feels rage and despair that one should know so little the people one loves . One is heart - broken at the im- possibility of understanding them , of getting right down into their heart of hearts . Sometimes , accidentally ...
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... Sometimes you pass a peasant ploughing his field with a wooden plough , like the ploughs they used in Roman times , drawn by two mules . Sometimes you pass a peasant on a don- key , or another , with his son riding pillion , on a horse ...
... Sometimes you pass a peasant ploughing his field with a wooden plough , like the ploughs they used in Roman times , drawn by two mules . Sometimes you pass a peasant on a don- key , or another , with his son riding pillion , on a horse ...
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