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Famous quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
- W. Somerset Maugham
A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her
favorite form of self-indulgence.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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, Strictly Personal
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever
to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- W. Somerset Maugham
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked...it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up
and I have gone to bed.
- W. Somerset Maugham
You can`t learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham
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