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I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that were of no
great profit to me . 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 .
I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that were of no
great profit to me . 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 .
Page 152
... if not fame , at least notoriety and a fortune that has enabled me to live in the
same style as my father lived in before me [ 152 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... if not fame , at least notoriety and a fortune that has enabled me to live in the
same style as my father lived in before me [ 152 ] THE SUMMING UP.
Page 286
With all my limitations , physical and mental , I have been glad to live . I would not
live my life over again . There would be no point in that . Nor would I care to pass
again through the anguish I have suffered . It is one of the faults of my nature ...
With all my limitations , physical and mental , I have been glad to live . I would not
live my life over again . There would be no point in that . Nor would I care to pass
again through the anguish I have suffered . It is one of the faults of my nature ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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