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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Sep 03, 2024 06:16AM

“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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“This is too busy a world for us to stop and wonder whether a man wants what he does not ask for. Too many are clamoring loudly for what we cannot give...”
― William John Locke, The White Dove

tags: life-lessons

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“Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

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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

tags: conversation, murder

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“We hear considerable of the "conventional people" of this world, but seldom do we meet with them, for as soon as we begin to know a person we discover peculiarities that quite remove him from the ranks of the convectional if such ranks exist at all.”
― Edith Van Dyne, Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation

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