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Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty the only thing that counts is the love of duty when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
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The great man is too often all of a piece it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
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There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
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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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Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
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You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
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