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Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
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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You see, money to you means freedom to me it means bondage.
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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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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
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He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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