The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 49
... 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 there is no possibility of ...
... 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 there is no possibility of ...
Page 284
... 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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... live now on the eve of great revolutions . I can- not doubt that the proletariat , increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one coun- try after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing ...
... live now on the eve of great revolutions . I can- not doubt that the proletariat , increasingly conscious of its rights , will eventually seize power in one coun- try after the other , and I never cease to marvel that the governing ...
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