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Certain Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
- Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us…
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his…
- I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
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