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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
It's a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, but few are chosen.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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.
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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.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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?
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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