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All W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
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