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William Somerset Maugham. company less agreeable than it might otherwise have been . I have never kept a diary . I wish now that during the year that followed my first success as a dramatist I had done So , for ... less interest in it . [ 2 ]
William Somerset Maugham. company less agreeable than it might otherwise have been . I have never kept a diary . I wish now that during the year that followed my first success as a dramatist I had done So , for ... less interest in it . [ 2 ]
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... less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads , we look ...
... less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps even because the teaching of Christ has at last penetrated our thick heads , we look ...
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... less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead ...
... less original than those of the serious young men who write in these journals . There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead ...
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