It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
More from William Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Permalink to quote #45 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
Permalink to quote #47 But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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