More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. 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 …
  2. 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.
  3. 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…
  4. Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
  5. People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
  6. There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to t…
  7. Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
  8. Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

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