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«I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.»
«When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It?s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.»
«Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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artificial, innumerable, rebuff, rebuffs, reserve
«Tolerance is only another name for indifference»
«Poor Henry, he's spending eternity wandering round and round a stately park and the fence is just too high for him to peep over and they're having tea just too far away for him to hear what the countess is saying»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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countess, countesses, peep, peeping, stately
«Beauty is a bit of a bore.»
«It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real they are bruised and wounded.»
«Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.»
«No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk -handsome, twenty-two year old.»
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