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One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as
a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading
the rest of one's life without concern for the future . When I have finished this ...
One does not die immediately one has made one's will ; one makes one's will as
a precaution . To have settled one's affairs is a very good preparation to leading
the rest of one's life without concern for the future . When I have finished this ...
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It has been an advantage to American writers , many of whom at one time or
another have been reporters , that their journalism ... One can do this only by
keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's
own .
It has been an advantage to American writers , many of whom at one time or
another have been reporters , that their journalism ... One can do this only by
keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's
own .
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I have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to
my imagination . This is ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own
life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in
a ...
I have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to
my imagination . This is ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own
life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in
a ...
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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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