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Up Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for…
- There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up…
- 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…
- Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means…
- No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes…
- It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
- An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
- It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only…
- Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we…
- Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
- if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes…
- Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless…
- 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'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…
- 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…
- I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man,…
- I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish…
- I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon…
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