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In the same way I have known men of affairs who have made great fortunes and brought vast enterprises to prosperity , but in every- thing unconcerned with their business appear to be devoid even of common sense .
In the same way I have known men of affairs who have made great fortunes and brought vast enterprises to prosperity , but in every- thing unconcerned with their business appear to be devoid even of common sense .
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He had known Swinburne inti- mately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom friend . For many years he had been ...
He had known Swinburne inti- mately and could talk about him in an entrancing fashion , but he could also talk of Shelley , whom after all he could not possibly have known , as if he had been a bosom friend . For many years he had been ...
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It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not con- centrated on two or ...
It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays that are known as plays of atmosphere . The best known of them , of course , are Chekhov's . Since the interest is not con- centrated on two or ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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