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. (W. 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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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