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What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had ...
What little guidance I had I owe to a young man who came to live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had ...
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... least to us who live in it , in such a condition of unrest and wretchedness as it has not often been in before . ... had a special import for I have never wished to be nothing but a writer ; I have wished to live life completely .
... least to us who live in it , in such a condition of unrest and wretchedness as it has not often been in before . ... had a special import for I have never wished to be nothing but a writer ; I have wished to live life completely .
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We live now on the eve of great revolutions . I cannot doubt that the proletariat , increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one country after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing ...
We live now on the eve of great revolutions . I cannot doubt that the proletariat , increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one country after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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