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Place Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
- The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be…
- I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient…
- There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- 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…
- 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…
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