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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.

W. Somerset Maugham
Taken, Study, Found

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

W. Somerset Maugham
Fool, Reader, Unsafe
"Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1954.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

W. Somerset Maugham
Nature, Men, Errors
"A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 20), 1949.

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