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... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
... readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that neither of ... reader can take it or leave it . If he has the patience to read what follows he will see that there is only one ...
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William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
William Somerset Maugham. for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only ... readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like what they write and if their books do not ...
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... reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded . Three months after my arrival in ...
... reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded . Three months after my arrival in ...
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