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William Somerset Maugham Quotes

«Men are passionate, men are weak, men are stupid, men are pitiful; to bring to bear on them anything so tremendous as the wrath of God seems strangely inept»
«It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive»
«Tradition is a guide and not a jailer»
«There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.»
«The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.»
«American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers»
«It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.»
«She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
«Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother»
«In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.»

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