Locating a passage 'rough edges'

[HisFury]

Hello,

I joined mostly because years ago, maybe 30 years ago, I read a passage that I think was attributed to Somerset Maugham (I could be wrong). It was something like 'men are like so many stones in a leather bag; over time they grind against each other and lose their rough edges'.

Does anyone know where that comes from? I'd like to read it again. Thanks!

[Emil Miller]

Hello,

I joined mostly because years ago, maybe 30 years ago, I read a passage that I think was attributed to Somerset Maugham (I could be wrong). It was something like 'men are like so many stones in a leather bag; over time they grind against each other and lose their rough edges'.

Does anyone know where that comes from? I'd like to read it again. Thanks!

It certainly sounds like Maugham but there are so many quotations of his that it would take quite a time to plough through them all.

Here are a couple of interesting ones:

“I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage