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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician Writer
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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Epigrams
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
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She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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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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