153 ordspråk av William Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening
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The bitterest misfortune can be covered up with a smile
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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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The crown of literature is poetry.
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The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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.
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