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I must write as though I were a person of importance ; and indeed , I am - to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even taking into consideration so grand a conception as the ...
I must write as though I were a person of importance ; and indeed , I am - to myself . To myself I am the most important person in the world ; though I do not forget that , not even taking into consideration so grand a conception as the ...
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But what is more important is that there has been a change of heart among us , owing to changes in civilisation , and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude . We are less revengeful than we were and ...
But what is more important is that there has been a change of heart among us , owing to changes in civilisation , and so certain themes that dramatists favoured have now fallen into desuetude . We are less revengeful than we were and ...
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He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation ...
He must be great enough to recognize with good - humoured resignation that his work , though so important , can have but an ephemeral value ; for his merit is that he responds to the needs of , and points the way to , his own generation ...
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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 | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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