More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
  2. At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
  3. It was not till quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say: 'I don't know.'
  4. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
  5. Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, the…
  6. Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
  7. She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cli…
  8. Have common sense and stick to the point.

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