W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Strictly Personal, ch. 31 (1941)
“He set no great value on money, or, perhaps, to speak properly, he set on it no more than its true value.”
Source: Ages in Chaos (2003), Chapter 8, “A cursed country where one has to shape everything out of a block” (p. 68)
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