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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Mediocre Only
It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beautiful Bed Day Decide Stau Such
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Human Lose Nobody Race Something Soon Speech Spoke Unless Very
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue
Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Clase Common Country Destruction Free Most Odd People Person Riddle
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Boundless Intoxicate Space
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Above Average Compliment Fool Great Most People Really Someone
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Country Life Place
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Always Despicable Necessary Oneself Other Sometimes

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