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Few Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know…
- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a…
- Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
- Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
- For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on…
- Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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