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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
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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So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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Now the answer ... is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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It's always difficult to make conversation with a drunk, and there's no denying it, the sober are at a disadvantage with him.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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It does the heart good to look at you.
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Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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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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A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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