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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
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