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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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