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Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate detail , a telling touch ... It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you .
Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate detail , a telling touch ... It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you .
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I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
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I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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