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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three.
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
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I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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.
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Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.
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We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.
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Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
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