153 ordspråk av William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set
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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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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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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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It takes two to make a love affair and a man's meat is too often a woman's poison
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It was such a lovely day, I thought it a pity to get up
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'
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It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, "I don't know
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It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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It's no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it
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