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Page 78
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 eigh- teen 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 eigh- teen to twenty I wrote down scenes for the plays I had in mind I find the ...
Page 139
I found them easy to get on with . They were of all sorts ; indeed , the variety would have been bewildering but that my powers of observation were by now well trained and I found it pos- sible without conscious effort to pigeon - hole ...
I found them easy to get on with . They were of all sorts ; indeed , the variety would have been bewildering but that my powers of observation were by now well trained and I found it pos- sible without conscious effort to pigeon - hole ...
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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 |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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