When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only but now and then I come across a passage per W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only but now and then I come across a passage perhaps only a phrase which has a meaning for me and it becomes part of me.

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