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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Consequences Prepare Take World
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Mediocre Only
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Compose Disgust Idea Live Make Men Only Picture Possible Regard Thing World
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Boundless Intoxicate Space
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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Bird Bush Destitute Hand Last Mentality Proverb Refuge Restore Retorted Worth
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Guide Jailer Tradition
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Impropriety Soul Wit
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
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
if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Buck Comparision Daughter Easy Grown Inside Know Manage Pretend Simple Steer

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