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W. Somerset Maugham. Most people live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which ...
W. Somerset Maugham. Most people live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which ...
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... live on in those inexpensive days , and finding the law distasteful he had made up his mind to devote himself to literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he ...
... live on in those inexpensive days , and finding the law distasteful he had made up his mind to devote himself to literature . He came to Heidelberg to learn German . I knew him till his death forty years later . For twenty years he ...
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... live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has dwelt among them can fail to have noticed how little they ...
... live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so to the very poor . They hate to be alone ; it gives them a sense of security to live in company . No one who has dwelt among them can fail to have noticed how little they ...
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