Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

Quote by William Somerset Maugham

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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost...

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost...

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good

To write simply is as difficult as to be good

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by...

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most...

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most...

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated

It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of...

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of...

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,...

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope...

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life...

Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life...

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the...

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the...

The crown of literature is poetry.

The crown of literature is poetry.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can...

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can...

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other...

Money is like a sixth sense - and you can't make use of the other...

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and...

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.

Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their...