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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Results from Classic Quotes:

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), "Of Human Bondage", 1915
Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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