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W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil Quotes: She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
         

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.


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