The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
W. Somerset MaughamIt has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
W. Somerset Maugham