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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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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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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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