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“I suppose it was the end of the world for her when her husband and her baby were killed. I suppose she… — W. Somerset Maugham End of the world Copy Share Image
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“And if I am not mistaken here is the secret of the greatness that was Spain. In Spain it is men that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Philip remembered the story of the Eastern King who, desiring to know the history of man, was brought by a sage five… — W. Somerset Maugham History Copy Share Image
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Gray's conversation was composed of cliches. However shopworn, he uttered them with an obvious conviction that he was the first person to… — W. Somerset Maugham Communication Copy Share Image
“I don’t think I shall ever find peace till I make up my mind about things,’ he said gravely. He hesitated. ‘It’s… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted it.… — W. Somerset Maugham Career Copy Share Image
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“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Books Copy Share Image
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“Philip thought of the countless millions to whom life is no more than unending labour, neither beautiful nor ugly, but just to… — W. Somerset Maugham Anger Copy Share Image
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...the sea offers the only broad horizon, and the immense he saw now gave him a peculiar, an indescribable thrill. He felt… — W. Somerset Maugham Adventure Copy Share Image
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force;… — W. Somerset Maugham Beautiful Copy Share Image
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have… — W. Somerset Maugham America Copy Share Image
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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