W. Somerset Maugham | newyears
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W. Somerset Maugham | work
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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W. Somerset Maugham | truth
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you’re cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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W. Somerset Maugham | success
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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W. Somerset Maugham | nature
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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W. Somerset Maugham | nature
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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