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Once when she was lying in bed , I suppose after a hæmorrhage , and knew she could not live much longer , the thought came to her that her sons when they grew up would not know what she was like when she died , so she called her maid ...
Once when she was lying in bed , I suppose after a hæmorrhage , and knew she could not live much longer , the thought came to her that her sons when they grew up would not know what she was like when she died , so she called her maid ...
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It is very different now , and the difference has been occa- sioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and ...
It is very different now , and the difference has been occa- sioned , I suppose , by the advent of the cinema . To- day , audiences , especially in English - speaking coun- tries , have learnt to see the point of a scene at once and ...
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... the claim of duty above the desire for happiness ; and we have all of us , I suppose , on occasion adopted a course because we thought it right though we well knew that it could bring us happiness neither then nor in the future .
... the claim of duty above the desire for happiness ; and we have all of us , I suppose , on occasion adopted a course because we thought it right though we well knew that it could bring us happiness neither then nor in the future .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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