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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.
W. Somerset Maugham
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
W. Somerset Maugham
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
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There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
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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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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
W. Somerset Maugham
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
W. Somerset Maugham
