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Thought Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most…
- When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not…
- It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
- The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction…
- She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his…
- This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.…
- Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can…
- I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I…
- 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…
- I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
- Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
- She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it…
- It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when…
- Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist…
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