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You Know Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
- You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
- Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
- I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral…
- Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know…
- 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…
- You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it.…
- Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most…
- You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can…
- You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much…
- Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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