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Saws Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- 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…
- Everyone had some defect, or body or of mind: he thought of all the people he had known (the whole world was like a sick…
- Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or…
- The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort…
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- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
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- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
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- I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle.… — Ann Bancroft
- I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work for him… — Ernie Banks