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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
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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The tragedy of love is indifference.
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
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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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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
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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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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
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The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
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