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All W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham in
Love
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham in
Death
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham in
Love
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham in
Success
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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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