“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
Tag: W. Somerset Maugham
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“Half the difficulties of man, half the uncertainties, lie in his desire to answer every question with Yes or No. Yes or No may neither of them be the answer; each side may have in it some Yes and some No.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
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“It is a false idea of virtue which thinks it demands the sacrifice of inclination and consists only in this sacrifice. An action is not virtuous merely because it is unpleasant to do.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
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“People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at your word.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
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“Good luck always brings merit, but merit very seldom brings good luck.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writers Notebook
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“Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.” — W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook
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“If I ever acquire wisdom I suppose I shall be wise enough to know what to do with it.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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“From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.” — W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale
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“We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge
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“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Circle
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