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Use Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim…
- In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
- In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who…
- In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
- If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
- It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
- People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing…
- All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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