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I have written few pages that I feel I could not improve and far too many that I have left with dissatisfaction because , try as I would , I could do no better . I cannot say of myself what Johnson said of Pope : ' He never passed a ...
I have written few pages that I feel I could not improve and far too many that I have left with dissatisfaction because , try as I would , I could do no better . I cannot say of myself what Johnson said of Pope : ' He never passed a ...
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One thing seems certain , and that is that if the stage play has any chance at all of survival , it is not by trying to do any longer what the pictures can do better . Those dramatists have followed a false trail who by a multitude of ...
One thing seems certain , and that is that if the stage play has any chance at all of survival , it is not by trying to do any longer what the pictures can do better . Those dramatists have followed a false trail who by a multitude of ...
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... are any better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us , and that the lot of the great majority ...
... are any better than they were , but for all that it does not seem fatuous to think that the world is on the whole a better place to live in than it was in the past that history sets before us , and that the lot of the great majority ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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