At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
More from William Somerset Maugham
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
Permalink to quote #117 An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
Permalink to quote #119 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.
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