Adventure Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

““Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.””

W. Somerset Maugham

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