W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
Iain Sinclair
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A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.
Daniel Webster
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I remember rather little of my life, and what I do remember is of small consequence.
Joseph Brodsky
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
