W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters.
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'What do you mean - Happy anniversary? It's not my birthday.'
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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
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I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul’s good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.
