W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After all, Lucille Ashtonbury Clifford, the light headed windmill was
Seems to have got the best of all this.
I have observed that the light headed commonly get the best of everything in this world, which the wooden headed and the beef headed do.
Regard as an outrage.
I am not prepared to say if it is or not.
End of chapter six
Chapter seven of the Friends Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Lieberbox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
A comforter.
William Bunker had paid a fine of two hundred dollars for beating his wife.
After getting his receipt, he went moodily home and seated himself at the domestic hearth.
Observing his abstracted and melancholy demeanour, the good wife approached and tenderly inquired the cause.
It's a delicate subject, dear, said he, with love light in his eyes.
Let's talk about something good to eat.
Then, with true wifely instinct, she sought to cheer him up with pleasing prattle of a new bonnet he had promised her.
Ah, darling, he sighed, absently picking up the fire poker and turning it in his hands.
Let us change the subject.
Then his soul's idol chirped an inspiring ballad, kissed him on the top of his head, and sweetly mentioned that the dressmaker had sent in her bill.
Let us talk only of love, returned he, thoughtfully rolling up his dexter sleeve.
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