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One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading the rest of one's life without concern for the future .
One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading the rest of one's life without concern for the future .
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... have been written by the same hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own .
... have been written by the same hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own .
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I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so inti- mately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is spent , one's masters at ...
I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so inti- mately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is spent , one's masters at ...
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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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