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W. Somerset Maugham12 quotes
It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1940There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1921People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. — W. Somerset Maugham · 1915All 12 quotes →