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The only letter of hers I ever saw was one that I came across when I was going through my uncle's papers after his death . He was a clergyman and she asked him to be godfather to one of her sons . She expressed , very simply and piously ...
The only letter of hers I ever saw was one that I came across when I was going through my uncle's papers after his death . He was a clergyman and she asked him to be godfather to one of her sons . She expressed , very simply and piously ...
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Evils are there , omnipresent ; pain and disease , the death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philosophers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically ...
Evils are there , omnipresent ; pain and disease , the death of those we love , poverty , crime , sin , frustrated hope : the list is interminable . What explanations have the philosophers to offer ? Some say that evil is logically ...
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Tolstoi was obsessed by the fear of death . He might with advantage have read what Epicurus wrote to a correspondent : ' Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us . For all good and evil consists in sensation ...
Tolstoi was obsessed by the fear of death . He might with advantage have read what Epicurus wrote to a correspondent : ' Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us . For all good and evil consists in sensation ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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