Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

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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.  

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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. 

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

'Of Human Bondage', 1915

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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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