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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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
Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Belongs Feel Man Mysteriously Place Sometimes
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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Last Longest Love never Return
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
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest
When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Durable Eighteen Emotion Violent
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
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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Bad Enough Future Know Past
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Breakfast Country Eat Three Want Well
Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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Accept Anything Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
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
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
To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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Adventure Again Artist Hear Heart Imagination Melody Recognize Repeat Sensitiveness
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.
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Able Account Acquire Bring Famous Friend Know Men Prestige Prove Small Tell
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

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