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I have passed many happy hours at rehearsals ; I have liked their easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a restaurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of strong bitter tea , with thick bread and butter , brought ...
I have passed many happy hours at rehearsals ; I have liked their easy camaraderie , the hurried lunch at a restaurant round the corner with a member of the cast and the cup of strong bitter tea , with thick bread and butter , brought ...
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Dr. Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from eighteen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the ...
Dr. Johnson remarked long ago that it is much more easy to form dialogues than to contrive adventures . Looking through the old notebooks in which from eighteen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the ...
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise ; for of course it is easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as ...
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise ; for of course it is easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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