“He was the kind of man with whom one would have hesitated to pass a lonely evening, but with whom one might cheerfully have looked forward to spending six months.”

— W. Somerset Maugham , book The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge (1943)

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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