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But now I can afford to put it off no longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy ...
But now I can afford to put it off no longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy ...
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I was hampered besides by my stam- mer and by the unfortunate accident that after I had written a play and finally corrected the typescript I could no longer take any great interest in it . I was curious to see how it would act ...
I was hampered besides by my stam- mer and by the unfortunate accident that after I had written a play and finally corrected the typescript I could no longer take any great interest in it . I was curious to see how it would act ...
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His success has changed him in the eyes of his old as- sociates and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admira- tion , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success ...
His success has changed him in the eyes of his old as- sociates and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admira- tion , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success ...
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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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