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Own Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
- I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
- We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- 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…
- I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less…
- My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise…
- Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
- Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
- The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were: Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change…
- 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…
- I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon…
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