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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
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I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.
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Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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He exulted in the possession of himself once more he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love he had had enough of it he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
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Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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