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owe to a young man who came to live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had a little money , enough to ...
owe to a young man who came to live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had a little money , enough to ...
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I have travelled ; I live in a house with a view of the sea , silent and apart from other habita- tions , in the middle of a garden , with spacious rooms . I have always thought life too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay ...
I have travelled ; I live in a house with a view of the sea , silent and apart from other habita- tions , in the middle of a garden , with spacious rooms . I have always thought life too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay ...
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The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor 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 .
The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor 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 .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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