What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been …

W. Somerset Maugham
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ✨ Newsweek Magazine, May 23, 1960.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ✨ Newsweek Magazine, May 23, 1960.

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