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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

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You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

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Aphorisms And Epigrams

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.

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Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumed the clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are not in the least conscious of any difference in station between them.

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Class

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

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Colleges And Universities

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.

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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

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There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.

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People who ask for your criticism want only praise. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

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Critics And Criticism

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

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Critics And Criticism

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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Death

It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

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Love

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

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Friends Or Friendship

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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Habit

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

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The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

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Literary Criticism

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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Nationalities And Nationalism

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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Tolerance is only another name for indifference. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

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Politicians And Politics

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

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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 Quotes

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.

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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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

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. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

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inspirational Success

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

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Writers And Writing

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

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Writers And Writing

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

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Writers And Writing

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

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Youth

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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Cute Love Sad Love

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

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Cute Cute Love Love Sweet Love

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. - W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

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Cute Cute Love Love Sweet Love

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