W. Somerset Maugham
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1,790 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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Forbid it, heaven.
The gimlet is as proper a gimlet as any in all Christendom.
But the timber is too hard to pierce.
Grant ye that the movement is waxing more wondrous with each springing sun.
Who shall say what it might not have been but for the sharp hatcheting of us wits among its boughs?
If the doctor have not cured his patient by tomorrow, he may at least claim that without the physic the man would have died today.
And pray, who shall search the vitals of a whale with a bodkin?
Who may reach his jack knife through the superposed blubber?
Peciderm, thy name is woman.
All the king's horses and all the king's men.
Shall not bend the bow that can dispatch a clothier.
Shaft through thy pearly hide.
The male and female women, who nightly howl their social and political grievances into the wide ear of the universe, are as insensible to the prickings of ridicule as they are unconscious of logic.
An intellectual Goliah of Ga might spear them with an epigram.
Like unto a weaver's beam.
And the sting thereof would be as but the nipping of a red ant.
Apollo might speed among them his silver arrows.
Which erst heaped the Pygrian shores, with hetacombs of Argive slain.
And they would but complain of the mosquito's beak.
Your female reformer goes smashing through society like a tipsy rhinoceros among the tulip beds.
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