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We know that all men are mortal ( Socrates was a man ; therefore — and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more than a logical premiss till we are forced to recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be ...
We know that all men are mortal ( Socrates was a man ; therefore — and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more than a logical premiss till we are forced to recognize that in the ordinary course of things our end can no longer be ...
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mind will be free to occupy itself with other things . For I hope that this will not be the last book I shall write . One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution .
mind will be free to occupy itself with other things . For I hope that this will not be the last book I shall write . One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as a precaution .
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Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted legend they would be unanimous in asserting that such a thing was ... golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for ...
Indeed if it were not founded on an accepted legend they would be unanimous in asserting that such a thing was ... golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for ...
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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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