Monday, May 10, 2004
W. Somerset Maugham on Politicians
In The Summing Up (1938), W. Somerset Maugham had this to say about politicians:
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I have known in various countries a good many politicians who have attained high office. I have continued to be puzzled by what seemed to me the mediocrity of their minds. I have found them ill-informed upon the ordinary affairs of life, and I have not often discovered in them either subtlety of intellect or liveliness of imagination.Things have not changed much, in this respect at least, since 1938.
