W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Quality
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
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I think I was a little disappointed in her. I expected then people to be more of a piece than I do now, and I was distressed to find so much vindictiveness in so charming a creature. I did not realize how motley are the qualities that go to make up a human being. Now I am well aware that pettiness and grandeur, malice and charity, hatred and love, can find place side by side in the same human heart.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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