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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
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Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
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It was like making a blunder at a party there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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He exulted in the possession of himself once more he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love he had had enough of it he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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