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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician Writer
Playwright
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Screenwriter
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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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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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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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
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Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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