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Piece Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible.…
- Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,…
- To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others…
- Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains…
- I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I…
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