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Page 41
... amused when I discover their defects or their vices ; I am touched when I see the goodness of the wicked and I am willing enough to shrug a tolerant shoulder at their wickedness . I am not my brother's keeper . I cannot bring myself to ...
... amused when I discover their defects or their vices ; I am touched when I see the goodness of the wicked and I am willing enough to shrug a tolerant shoulder at their wickedness . I am not my brother's keeper . I cannot bring myself to ...
Page 59
... amused himself with thinking what he would write when he really got down to it and for an- other twenty with what he could have written if the fates had been kinder . He wrote a good deal of verse . He had neither imagination , nor ...
... amused himself with thinking what he would write when he really got down to it and for an- other twenty with what he could have written if the fates had been kinder . He wrote a good deal of verse . He had neither imagination , nor ...
Page 84
... amusing dialogue , an eye for a comic situation and a flippant gaiety ; there was more in me than that , but this I put away for the time , and wrote my comedies with those sides of myself only that were useful to my purpose . They were ...
... amusing dialogue , an eye for a comic situation and a flippant gaiety ; there was more in me than that , but this I put away for the time , and wrote my comedies with those sides of myself only that were useful to my purpose . They were ...
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