W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham CHwas a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 January 1874
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
inspirational life death
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.