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Quotations By W. Somerset Maugham


Decadence
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Humor
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.

Individuality
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a common place mind.

Love
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Suffer
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. -- W. Somerset Maugham