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Way Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs…
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end…
- Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
- A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
- Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
- But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the…
- Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all…
- Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
- Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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