I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a… — William Somerset Maugham
I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to ‘take in’, that civilized man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.
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