More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
  2. There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood...Money is like a sixth sense without which you canno…
  3. I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
  4. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know …
  5. Art... is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of li…
  6. It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
  7. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
  8. I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

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