“I had not yet learnt how contradictory is human nature; I did not know how much pose there is in the sincere, how much baseness in the noble, or how much goodness in the reprobate.”

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (1919), Ch. 11, p. 39

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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