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Quotes by W Somerset Maugham
- If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
- If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
- If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
- Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
- In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
- It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
- 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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