William Somerset Maugham
a English novelist, playwright, novelist
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. (William Somerset Maugham) [work, dignity, enough] [03/12/2018 14:45:32] 
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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 a reputation for cynicism. (William Somerset Maugham) [cynicism, reputation, good] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. (William Somerset Maugham) [women, hollywood, hollywood] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. (William Somerset Maugham) [money, destiny] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. (William Somerset Maugham) [self, success, people] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance. (William Somerset Maugham) [tolerance, humour, people] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. (William Somerset Maugham) [soul, run, the nature] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a common place mind. (William Somerset Maugham) [mind, place, affectation] [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news? (William Somerset Maugham) [03/12/2018 14:45:32]
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. (William Somerset Maugham) [praise, want, criticism] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. (William Somerset Maugham) [changing, chance, love] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated (William Somerset Maugham) [speech, grammar, remember] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. (William Somerset Maugham) [changing, chance, love] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer (William Somerset Maugham) [guide, tradition] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. (William Somerset Maugham) [talk, party] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other five without it (William Somerset Maugham) [five, money] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. (William Somerset Maugham) [quote, ability] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. (William Somerset Maugham) [habit, moderation, excess] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others. (William Somerset Maugham) [vice, nature, naturally] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. (William Somerset Maugham) [adultery, know] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. (William Somerset Maugham) [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. (William Somerset Maugham) [youth, illusion] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. (William Somerset Maugham) [hope, english, husbands] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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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 childish, to bewail it senseless. (William Somerset Maugham) [universe, order, evil] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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Resignation is the timid sign of courage (William Somerset Maugham) [courage, resignation] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set. (William Somerset Maugham) [world, eyes, unconventional] [03/03/2018 03:03:03]
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