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Little 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.…
- There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
- This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
- The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must…
- I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
- Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and…
- People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what…
- I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
- The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a…
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