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Mean Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an…
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is…
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
- You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
- When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they…
- Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear,…
- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much…
- You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.
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