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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
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Physician Writer
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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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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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.
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It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
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I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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What mean and cruel things men can do for the love of God.
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
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The great trues are too important to be new.
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The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.' My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said. My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
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I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
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