Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`l…

W. Somerset Maugham
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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2010). Collected Short Stories, p.329, Random House
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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (2010). Collected Short Stories, p.329, Random House

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