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- Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
- Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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