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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Sep 03, 2024 06:16AM

“...looking at the poems of John Gray when I saw the tiniest rivulet of text meandering through the very largest meadow of margin, I suggested to Oscar Wilde that he should go a step further than these minor poets; he should publish a book all margin; full of beautiful, unwritten thoughts.”
― Ada Leverson

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“What's a twisted ankle or a shrivelled leg to do with happiness? Or even a persecuted grandfather? We're made of better stuff you and I than to cry over such babyish bumps. My! what a lot of things we both need to be thankful for.”
― Edith Van Dyne, Mary Louise

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“It's so difficult, isn't it, to get to know people when there is a murder? And quite impossible to have any really intellectual conversation.”
― Agatha Christie, The Hollow

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“We, who live in the cities, see but a little farther than across the street. We spend our days looking at the work of our own and our neighbors' hands. Small wonder our lives have so little of God in them, when we come in touch with so little that God has made.”
― Harold Bell Wright, The Shepherd of the Hills

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