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Mangan Monologue from Heartbreak House

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

male · sarcastic · 1:11 min

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Achievements? Well, I don't know what you call achievements; but I've jolly well put a stop to the games of the other fellows in the other departments. Every man of them thought he was going to save the country all by himself, and do me out of the credit and out of my chance of a title. I took good care that if they wouldn't let me do it they shouldn't do it themselves either. I may not know anything about my own machinery; but I know how to stick a ramrod into the other fellow's. And now they all look the biggest fools going. (HECTOR: And in heaven's name, what do you look like?) I look like the fellow that was too clever for all the others, don't I? If that isn't a triumph of practical business, what is?

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30s · anger · power · ambition · identity

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