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Upon Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
- I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
- Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
- Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon…
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This…
- I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is…
- ...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,…
- On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
- When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and…
- There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is…
- Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,…
- You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize…
- He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
- 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…
- Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we…
- The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
- 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…
- 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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