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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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