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Literary Quote of the Day: William Somerset Maugham
Today’s literary quote of the day is from William Somerset Maugham‘s Of Human Bondage:
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
H/t S.L.
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“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.”
Homer, Iliad (bk. X, l. 293), (Pope’s translation)
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