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Genius is talent provided with ideals.
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
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
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The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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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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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
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Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
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Imagination grows by exercise.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
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