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Part Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
- 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…
- By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
- Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
- The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most…
- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is…
- When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only…
- 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…
- I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either…
- Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's…
- I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and…
- But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more…
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