“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.”

—  W. Somerset Maugham, book Of Human Bondage

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 88

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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