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Inspirational Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- We do not write as we want, but as we can.
- I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
- Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
- You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
- I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
- Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
- We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
- The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
- Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
- The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
- The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
- When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
- Genius is talent provided with ideals.
- No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- You can never know enough about your characters
- Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
- Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
- The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
- First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
- Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy
- I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
- A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
- 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…
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