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Page 182
... 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 ...
Page 183
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
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... success did not bring me all I had ex- pected 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 teem- ing memories of my past life . The loss ...
... success did not bring me all I had ex- pected 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 teem- ing memories of my past life . The loss ...
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