“Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”

— W. Somerset Maugham, book Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 66

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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