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Other Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly…
- 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…
- The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables…
- On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to…
- We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool…
- He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than…
- For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on…
- Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
- The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human…
- One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
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- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
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- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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