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... success spoils people by making them vain , egotistic and self - complacent is erroneous ; on the contrary it makes them , for the most part , humble , tolerant and kind . Failure makes people bitter and cruel . Success improves the ...
... success spoils people by making them vain , egotistic and self - complacent is erroneous ; on the contrary it makes them , for the most part , humble , tolerant and kind . Failure makes people bitter and cruel . Success improves the ...
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... Success destroyed him . 49 THE WRITER IS wise then who is wary of success . He must look with dread on the claims that others make on him because of it , the responsibilities it forces on him , and the hindering activities that it ...
... Success destroyed him . 49 THE WRITER IS wise then who is wary of success . He must look with dread on the claims that others make on him because of it , the responsibilities it forces on him , and the hindering activities that it ...
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... success did not bring me all I had expected or whether it was a natural reaction from success : I was but just firmly established as a popular playwright when I began to be obsessed by the teeming memories of my past life . The loss of ...
... success did not bring me all I had expected or whether it was a natural reaction from success : I was but just firmly established as a popular playwright when I began to be obsessed by the teeming memories of my past life . The loss of ...
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