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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes: People ask you for criticism, but they only…

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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

("Of Human Bondage")

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The fact was that he had ceased to believe not for this reason or the other, but because he had not the religious temperament.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will surrender yourself to the beauty of that liturgy the power of which over the human spirit has been proved by the experience of the ages, peace will descend upon you.
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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.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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