FastSaying
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
William Somerset Maugham
Man
Mankind
Study
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
— William Somerset Maugham
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
— William Somerset Maugham
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The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
— William Somerset Maugham
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other
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