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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
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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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It was like making a blunder at a party there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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