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Said Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
- When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a…
- There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side…
- It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
- Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of…
- You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
- You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father…
- 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…
- Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and…
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