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Show Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
- "Do you like card tricks?" "No, I hate card tricks," I answered. "Well, I`ll just show you this one." He showed me three.
- When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
- Lady Hodmarsh and the duchess immediately assumedthe clinging affability that persons of rank assume with their inferiors in order to show them that they are…
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