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... 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 . When I have finished this book I shall know where I stand ...
... 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 . When I have finished this book I shall know where I stand ...
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... 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 . For my part the two writers I have found most useful to study for this purpose are Hazlitt and Cardinal ...
... 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 . For my part the two writers I have found most useful to study for this purpose are Hazlitt and Cardinal ...
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... one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence a greater ...
... one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in another existence a greater ...
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