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... who had died , I came across the diary that my grandfather kept when as a young man at the beginning of the nineteenth century he did what I believe was called the Little Tour , France , Germany and Switzerland ; and I remember that ...
... who had died , I came across the diary that my grandfather kept when as a young man at the beginning of the nineteenth century he did what I believe was called the Little Tour , France , Germany and Switzerland ; and I remember that ...
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For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted a good deal of attention ; among them were those of John Oliver Hobbs . They were thought witty and ...
For some time Fisher Unwin had been bringing out in what he called The Pseudonym Series a number of short novels which had attracted a good deal of attention ; among them were those of John Oliver Hobbs . They were thought witty and ...
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I called myself an agnostic , but in my blood and my bones I looked upon God as a hypothesis that a reasonable man must reject . But if there was no God who could consign me to eternal flames and no soul that could be thus consigned ...
I called myself an agnostic , but in my blood and my bones I looked upon God as a hypothesis that a reasonable man must reject . But if there was no God who could consign me to eternal flames and no soul that could be thus consigned ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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