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Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe ...
Passing the Comedy Theatre I happened to look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe ...
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... that because that was how it fell out , but which , even while I was playing my part in it , I could look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . When I look back on my life , with its successes and its 271 THE SUMMING UP.
... that because that was how it fell out , but which , even while I was playing my part in it , I could look at from a distance and know for the mirage it was . When I look back on my life , with its successes and its 271 THE SUMMING UP.
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though I miss him , I can look back on him with affection and regret , with gratitude for all he did for me and for the happiness he brought me , without repining . So it is with other of my friends , and so I would wish the friends I ...
though I miss him , I can look back on him with affection and regret , with gratitude for all he did for me and for the happiness he brought me , without repining . So it is with other of my friends , and so I would wish the friends I ...
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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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