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Sixpences all over the cover page. There is no original text of Six Pennies All Over the Floor, but someone else's interpretation of the book's title. The title comes from a critic's words: The protagonist of "Human Shackles", like many people, looks up at the moon all day long, but does not see the six pennies under his feet. Maugham found it interesting and used it as the title of his book. So on the cover page.

"There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon." This famous saying that has influenced millions of people was not actually written by Maugham himself, but by a critic commenting on Maugham's The protagonist Philip in another novel "The Shackles of Humanity" said: "Like many young people, he admires the moon all day long, but does not see the sixpence silver coin under his feet." Maugham liked this statement very much, so he used "The Moon and Sixpence" as the title of his next novel. Later, in Liu Yu's article "Another Height", this sentence was simplified to: "There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon."