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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Angry Dangerous Easily Illusion Public Scene
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
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Come Earth End Famous Leave Life May More never River Sojourn Stone Surface Water Trace
You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Action Freedom Good Know Life Thing
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

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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
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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Freedom Lose Society Ultimately Value Wealth Well
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Acquire Almost Construct Habit Life Miseries Raed Refuse Yourself
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
She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Glass Handsome Love Men She Thing Three Wine
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
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
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Fact Great Guarantee Many People Something Truth
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother

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