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My success was spectacular and unexpected . I was more relieved than excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as ...
My success was spectacular and unexpected . I was more relieved than excited . I think I lack the quality of being surprised , and just as in my journeys I have accepted the most curious sights and the most novel circumstances as ...
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Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determination to ...
Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determination to ...
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His success has changed him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admiration , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success has ...
His success has changed him in the eyes of his old associates and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admiration , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success has ...
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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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