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Page 49
... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
Page 232
... live in it , in such a condition of unrest and wretchedness as it has not often been in before . For me the question has had a special import for I have never wished to be nothing but a writer ; I have wished to live life completely ...
... live in it , in such a condition of unrest and wretchedness as it has not often been in before . For me the question has had a special import for I have never wished to be nothing but a writer ; I have wished to live life completely ...
Page 284
... live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has dwelt among them can fail to have noticed how little they ...
... live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has dwelt among them can fail to have noticed how little they ...
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