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W. Somerset Maugham

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" Only a mediocre person is always at his best. "

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" Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. "

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" Have common sense and stick to the point. "

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" I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. "

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" You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. "

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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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" We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "

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" It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. "

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" No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. "

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" Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. "

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" When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. "

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" Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. "

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" It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. "

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" Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it. "

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" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. "

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" There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. "

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" Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. "

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" It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. "

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" Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. "

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" There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless. "

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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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" Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. "

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" It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer. "

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" When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right. "

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" What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. "

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" We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby. "

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" An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. "

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