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During this period I met persons who by their rank . fame or position might very well have thought themselves destined to become historical figures . I did not find them as brilliant as my fancy had painted them .
During this period I met persons who by their rank . fame or position might very well have thought themselves destined to become historical figures . I did not find them as brilliant as my fancy had painted them .
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sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
sation of the persons on the stage at the rising of the curtain concentrates the attention of the audience on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this practice more scrupu- lously than ...
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So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a common experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different .
So different may be the finished product from the original that it must be a common experience of authors to be accused of having drawn a lifelike portrait of a certain person when they had in mind someone quite different .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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