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Page 147
It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent , intelligent and versatile actor . On the other hand , I have had plays produced in which I was conscious that the audience were not seeing anything like what I wanted ...
It would be difficult to find on the English stage a more competent , intelligent and versatile actor . On the other hand , I have had plays produced in which I was conscious that the audience were not seeing anything like what I wanted ...
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And such is the diversity of opinion that it is very difficult for an author to arrive at any conclusion about his merit . In England there is a natural tendency to despise the novel . The autobiography of an insignificant politician ...
And such is the diversity of opinion that it is very difficult for an author to arrive at any conclusion about his merit . In England there is a natural tendency to despise the novel . The autobiography of an insignificant politician ...
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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 errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was ...
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 errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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