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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
W. Somerset Maugham

Biography

Author Profession: Playwright
Nationality: British
Born: January 25, 1874
Died: December 16, 1965

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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.
W. Somerset Maugham

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
W. Somerset Maugham

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
W. Somerset Maugham

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham

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