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Letter "W" » William Somerset Maugham Quotes
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«Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind»
«In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
deliberation, deliberations, justify, The Conduct of Life
«For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
occupy, real life, shadowy, substantial
«I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.»
«To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.»
«To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.»
«The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.»
«The writer is more concerned to know than to judge»
«The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening»
«A pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not last forever»
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