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You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.
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
Novelist
Physician Writer
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W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
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It is well to remember that grammar is common speech formulated.
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