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First Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
- First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
- Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
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