More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
  2. We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
  3. When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
  4. You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
  5. You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
  6. I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
  7. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  8. She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she out into her answer. 'You m…

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