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W. Somerset Maugham on Advice

1874–1965 England

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

Of Human Bondage (1915)

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Of Human Bondage (1915)

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

Conversations with Willie (1978)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: W. Somerset Maugham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.