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Needs Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless…
- It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
- It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.
- Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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