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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A well cooked joint is redolent of religion.
And a delicate pasty is crisp with charity.
The man who can light his after dinner Havana, without feeling full to the neck, with all the cardinal virtues, is either steeped in inequity or has dined badly.
In either case he is no true man.
We stoutly contend that that worthy personage Epicurus has been shamefully misrepresented by absteminious and hence envious and mendacious historians.
Either his philosophy was the most gentle, genial, and reverential of antique systems, or he was not an epicurean.
And to call him so is a deceitful flattery.
We hold that it is morally impossible for a man to dine daily upon the fat of the land in courses.
And yet deny a future state of existence beautific with beef and ecstatic with all edibles.
Another falsity of history is that of the
Heliogabilis, was it not?
Dining off night and gale's tongues.
No true gourmet wouldn't ever send this warbler to the shambles so long as scarcer birds might be obtained.
It is a fine natural instinct that teaches the hungry and cadaverous to avoid the temples of religion.
and a short sighted and misdirected zeal that would gather them into the sanctuary.
Religion is for the oleogeneus, the fat bellied.
Plist saturated devotees of the table.
Unless the stomach be lined with good things.
The parson may say as many as he likes, and his truth shall not be swallowed, nor his wisdom.
In lead digested.
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