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Great Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
- The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
- Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
- There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up…
- Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
- An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
- Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
- It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
- Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value…
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we…
- The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
- 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…
- The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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