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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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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
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A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
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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 daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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