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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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We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
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The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.
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The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
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The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
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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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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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 rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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