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“Though I said that affection was the greatest enemy of love, I would never deny that it's a very good substitute. I'm not sure that a marriage founded on it isn't the happiest.
[The book-bag]”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. ”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale: Or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard

“It does the heart good to look at you.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she spoke it was with a faint smile on her lips.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge