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William Somerset Maugham Quotes

English playwright and author (1874–1965)

William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist, and short story writer; often published as simply W. Somerset Maugham.

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Alternative Names: W. Somerset Maugham • Somerset Maugham

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The isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

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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.

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She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"

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The tragedy of love is indifference.

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Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

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