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Yet you will find in their works sentence after sentence that you must read twice to discover the sense . Often you can only guess at it , for the writers have evidently not said what they intended . Another cause of obscurity is that ...
Yet you will find in their works sentence after sentence that you must read twice to discover the sense . Often you can only guess at it , for the writers have evidently not said what they intended . Another cause of obscurity is that ...
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... a quick eye for a good story and a telling point , animation and a vivid way of writing . All the dramatist needs be sides is a specific knack . I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of .
... a quick eye for a good story and a telling point , animation and a vivid way of writing . All the dramatist needs be sides is a specific knack . I do not know that anyone has been able to discover what this knack consists of .
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I have gone a long way round to discover what everyone knew already . I have little sense of reverence . There is a great deal too much of it in the world..It is claimed for many objects that do not deserve it .
I have gone a long way round to discover what everyone knew already . I have little sense of reverence . There is a great deal too much of it in the world..It is claimed for many objects that do not deserve it .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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