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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind
By W. Somerset Maugham
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel.
By W. Somerset Maugham
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
By W. Somerset Maugham
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
By W. Somerset Maugham