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... amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intelligent . He had a prodigious memory , a keen sense of humour , and malice . He had ...
... amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse . He had read a great deal , though not very carefully , it appears , and his conversation was extremely intelligent . He had a prodigious memory , a keen sense of humour , and malice . He had ...
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William Somerset Maugham. amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich ...
William Somerset Maugham. amusing and I decided that I could write a comedy . I made up my mind to write one now . I called it Loaves and Fishes . Its hero was a worldly , ambitious parson and the story dealt with his courtship of a rich ...
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... amusing trick , but nothing more . When writers , instead of using it as an occasional device for a particular purpose , ironical , dramatic or explanatory , made it the basis of their work it proved tedious . I conjecture that what is ...
... amusing trick , but nothing more . When writers , instead of using it as an occasional device for a particular purpose , ironical , dramatic or explanatory , made it the basis of their work it proved tedious . I conjecture that what is ...
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