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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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