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I was a trifle vexed , for it is a very different thing to tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compli- ment of saying that he had heard it all from my own ...
I was a trifle vexed , for it is a very different thing to tell the truth about yourself and to have somebody else tell it , and I should have liked the critic to do me the compli- ment of saying that he had heard it all from my own ...
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them and put them aside , as you can a book , and you have to read the whole volume , as it were , only to learn that it had nothing much to tell you . 27 YOUNG PERSONS , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of ...
them and put them aside , as you can a book , and you have to read the whole volume , as it were , only to learn that it had nothing much to tell you . 27 YOUNG PERSONS , who are anxious to write , sometimes pay me the compliment of ...
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I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had writen a novel and was halfway through ...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had writen a novel and was halfway through ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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