Thursday, May 7, 2009

QOTD, 050709


We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)

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