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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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You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
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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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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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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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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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The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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