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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
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Physician Writer
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W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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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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The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
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No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.
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Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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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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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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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
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I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
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