W. Somerset Maugham Quote

You will have to learn many tedious things... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.


Of Human Bondage - Chapter LIV (p. 239), Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1936


You will have to learn many tedious things... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to ...

You will have to learn many tedious things... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to ...

You will have to learn many tedious things... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to ...

You will have to learn many tedious things... which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to ...