“ You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. ”
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (1915). copy citation
Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
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Source | Of Human Bondage |
Topic | thought acts |
Date | 1915 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/351/pg351-images.html |
Context
“In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse."
He leaned back cautiously, for the chair on which he sat had a ricketty leg, and it was disconcerting when a rhetorical flourish was interrupted by a sudden fall to the floor.”
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