You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.
Tag: W. Somerset Maugham
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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved.
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.