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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 average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
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The great trues are too important to be new.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers
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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
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Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The tragedy of love is indifference.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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