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If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
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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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
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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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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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