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W. Somerset Maugham

"If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie." W. Somerset Maugham
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Public Opinion   

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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation." W. Somerset Maugham
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Resignation   

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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way." W. Somerset Maugham
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Sentiment   

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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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel." W. Somerset Maugham
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inspirational    Success   

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"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species." W. Somerset Maugham
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Cute    Love    Sad Love   

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"It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it." W. Somerset Maugham
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Cute    Cute Love    Love    Sweet Love   

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"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I." W. Somerset Maugham
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Cute    Cute Love    Love    Sweet Love   

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"You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct." W. Somerset Maugham
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Adultery   

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"What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories." W. Somerset Maugham
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Age And Aging   

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"Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them." W. Somerset Maugham
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Class   

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"I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum." W. Somerset Maugham
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Colleges And Universities   

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"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult." W. Somerset Maugham
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Common Sense   

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"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers." W. Somerset Maugham
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Common Sense   

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"There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action." W. Somerset Maugham
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Freedom   

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"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other." W. Somerset Maugham
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Love   

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"The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things." W. Somerset Maugham
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Literary Criticism   

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"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." W. Somerset Maugham
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Tradition   

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"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature." W. Somerset Maugham
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Speech   

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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive." W. Somerset Maugham
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Suffering   

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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties." W. Somerset Maugham
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Writers And Writing   

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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge." W. Somerset Maugham
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Writers And Writing   



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