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Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham

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Sep 03, 2024 06:16AM

“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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“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.”
― 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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“I give you better than proof, gentlemen; I give you my positive opinion.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice

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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

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