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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Attention Bad Good Man One Play Sort Tormented
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Difference Long Love Men Time Women
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Become First Foolish Million One People Thing Wise
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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Convent Find One Only Peace Pleasure Soul World
Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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After Come Experience Material Wait You
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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Life Men One Pleasure Seek Thing
The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Clothes Dress Man never Notice
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Bering Girl Made Make Mistake Want
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth

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