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

W. Somerset Maugham
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. ✨ Ten Novels and Their Authors. Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1954.
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