More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. 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.
  2. 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…
  3. It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
  4. Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
  5. 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 …
  6. Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always h…
  7. 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…
  8. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meanin…

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