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Effect Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim…
- Success. I don't believe it has any effect on me. For one thing I always expected it.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse…
- The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- 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…
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