W. Somerset Maugham
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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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Observe the significance of the phrase sweet sixteen.
What a world of meaning lurks in the expression.
She is sweet as a peach.
And how suggestive of luncheon are the words tender youth?
A kiss itself is but a modified bite, and when a young girl insists upon making a strawberry mark upon the back of your hand, she only gives way to an instinct she has not yet learned to control.
The fond mother, when she says her babe is almost good enough to eat,
Merely shows that she herself is only a trifle too good to eat it.
These evidences might be multiplied at infinitum.
But if enough has been said to induce one human being to revert to the diet of his ancestors, the object of this essay is accomplished.
forty
Chapter forty one of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beers This Libravox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Tchau talk.
Your friend's friend.
If there is any individual who combines within himself the vices of an entire species, it is he.
A mother in law has usually been thought a rather satisfactory specimen of total depravity.
It has been customary to regard your sweetheart's brother as tolerably vicious for a young man.
There is excellent authority for looking upon your business partner as not wholly without merit as a nuisance, but your friend's friend is as far ahead of these in all that constitutes a healthy disagreeableness, as they themselves are in advance of the average reptile or the conventional pestilence.
We do not propose to illustrate the great truth we have in hand by instances.
The experience of the reader will furnish ample evidence in support of our proposition.
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