Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of thes…

W. Somerset Maugham
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Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1939). Christmas Holiday
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