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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 .
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 .
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One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by which to test one's own style and an ideal which in one's modern way one can aim at .
One can do this only by keeping constantly in touch with the writing of an age not too remote from one's own . So can one have a standard by which to test one's own style and an ideal which in one's modern way one can aim at .
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I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is ...
I do not suppose one ever in after life knows people so intimately as those with whom one's childhood and early youth have been passed . One's family , the servants with whom so much of a child's life is ...
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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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