Somerset Maugham

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    If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)

    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.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

    The Americans ... have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.
    —W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)