The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is …

W. Somerset Maugham
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected. ✨ W. Somerset Maugham (1954). Mr. Maugham Himself
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