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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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It is good to be on your guard against an Englishman who speaks French perfectly he is very likely to be a card-sharper or an attache in the diplomatic service.
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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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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
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if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
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