Updated: Jan 30
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham, William Heineman Ltd, 1919
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