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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
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I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
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If only the good were a little less heavy-footed
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