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In The Summing Up (1938) and A Writer's Notebook (1949) Maugham explains his philosophy of life as a resigned atheism and a certain skepticism about the extent of man's innate goodness and intelligence; it is this that gives his work its astringent cynicism.
Other mitigating factors, including previous wrongful imprisonment, were not addressed in the summing up.
ONE ON ONE!!! IF YA ARD ENOUGH! #BBCDebate Blimey it's like @MannyPacquiao v. @FloydMayweather in the summing up.
And yet there is something in the language: if she was such a substandard mother, how did her three daughters grow up to be so "caring", as stated in the summing up?
Standardising the scores for individual questions, and in the summing of these, allows one to compare total scores for women who may have completed different numbers of the core questions.
The narrator tells us that Kear "saw the white light of revelation when first he read that Charles Dickens in an after-dinner speech had stated that genius was an infinite capacity for taking pains"—the same word that Maugham applied to himself in "The Summing Up" ("I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my natural defects allowed").
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Shuttling between them both, Dante finds — in the sum — love.
The poetry lies in the sum of the two lines, not in their reduction.
"Certainly she's a pioneer in the sum total of what she's doing," Dr. Hammer said.
The former already exists in the sum total of human interactions.
(Mr. Robinson, an Academy governor, directed Mr. Affleck in "The Sum of All Fears").
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