If a nation values anything... by W. Somerset Maugham, a British Playwright

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“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

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Name: W. Somerset Maugham

Nationality: British

Date of Birth: Jan 25, 1874

Date of Death: Dec 16, 1965

Profession: Playwright

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