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Home Quotes & Sayings W. Somerset Maugham Quotes (About Art, Man, Sons, Work & Career)

W. Somerset Maugham Quotes: Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to…

Oh, my dear fellow, if you want to be a gentleman you must give up being an artist. They've got nothing to do with one another. You hear of men painting pot-boilers to keep an aged mother - well, it shows they're excellent sons, but it's no excuse for bad work. They're only tradesmen. An artist would let his mother go to the workhouse.

("Of Human Bondage")

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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