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In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle ... Here and there one's know that all men are mortal therefore - and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more ...
In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle ... Here and there one's know that all men are mortal therefore - and so forth ) , but it remains for us little more ...
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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 have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to my imagination . ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's ...
I have only found one explanation that appealed equally to my sensibility and to my imagination . ... It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the necessary outcome of one's ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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