Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more …

W. Somerset Maugham
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. ✨ The Summing Up by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.
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