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作者：W Somerset Maugham  [全部名言]

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“Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Death
“People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Criticism
“It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Quotations
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“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  ·  Art
“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  ·  No category
“Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Money
“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  ·  Dignity
“It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“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  ·  Mistakes
“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  The Future
“When things are at their worst I find something always happens.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Books
“The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Love
“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  Love
“It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
“The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.”
— W. Somerset Maugham  ·  No category
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