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“Flat furnishing and letting is a hobby of mine, and a profitable one, too, but it can never take the place of the stage with me.”
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The speaker enjoys furnishing flats and renting them out, and says this work is financially rewarding as well as pleasurable. Even so, it cannot replace the stage. The comparison shows that earning money from a hobby is not the same as taking the place of the speaker’s central stage activity.
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- Waikato Times (reprinting the Melbourne Leader)
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