W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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• Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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