“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”

—  W. Somerset Maugham, book Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 106

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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