W. Somerset Maugham quote: I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in ...

I don’t see why the things we believe absolutely now shouldn’t be just as wrong as what they believed in the past.’‘Neither do I.’‘Then how can you believe anything at all?’‘I don’t know.

~ W. Somerset Maugham ~

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