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William Somerset Maugham Quotes
«The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account»
«It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
convention, Eyes of the World, the Convention, unconventional, unconventionality
«It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Praise
| Keywords:
censure, salutary
«You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.»
«Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
shirk, shirked, shirking, undertake
«Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.»
«The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
loveliest, melodies, occurrences