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«Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.»
«At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
dinner, dinner party, party, wisely
«Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumed, in due course, mask, The Mask
«Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
a trifle, ironies, trifle
«I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Resignation
| Keywords:
frame of mind, humorous, resignation, The Conduct of Life
«It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Grammar
| Keywords:
Common Speech, formulate, formulated, formulates, formulating, grammar
«We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.»
«If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Freedom,
Irony,
Nations
| Keywords:
ironies, irony
«When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.»
«There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain»
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