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You Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
- Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
- It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of…
- If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
- You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
- I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient…
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
- Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
- You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get…
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