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Page 42
I had for the first time tasted freedom and I could not bear the thought of going to Cambridge and being subjected once more to restraint . I felt myself a man and I had a great eager- ness to enter at once upon life .
I had for the first time tasted freedom and I could not bear the thought of going to Cambridge and being subjected once more to restraint . I felt myself a man and I had a great eager- ness to enter at once upon life .
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To do so is now more than ever necessary , for audi- ences are at once quicker - witted and more impatient than ever before in the history of the theatre . Plays have been written in such and such a way because they satis fied audiences ...
To do so is now more than ever necessary , for audi- ences are at once quicker - witted and more impatient than ever before in the history of the theatre . Plays have been written in such and such a way because they satis fied audiences ...
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Someone is badly wanted to define once more the characters peculiar to the several arts and to point out to those who go astray that their experiments can lead only to their own confusion . It is too much to expect that anyone may be ...
Someone is badly wanted to define once more the characters peculiar to the several arts and to point out to those who go astray that their experiments can lead only to their own confusion . It is too much to expect that anyone may be ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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