More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
  2. It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
  3. You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
  4. She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit:
  5. After all, a man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
  6. We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
  7. The tragedy of love is indifference.
  8. You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

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