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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 to find excuses for ...
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 to find excuses for ...
Page 164
Fisher Unwin pressed me to write another much longer book about the slums. He
told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would
have, now that I had broken the ice, a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth.
Fisher Unwin pressed me to write another much longer book about the slums. He
told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would
have, now that I had broken the ice, a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth.
Page 290
The young man turns away from it with horror because he thinks that when he
reaches it, he will still yearn for the things that give variety and gusto to his youth.
He is mistaken. It is true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or
...
The young man turns away from it with horror because he thinks that when he
reaches it, he will still yearn for the things that give variety and gusto to his youth.
He is mistaken. It is true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or
...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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