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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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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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Mediocre Only
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing
In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Action Both Bother Choose Country Else Everybody Freedom Good May Nobody Thing
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Does Future Present Seen Unimportant
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alone Brass Communicate Each Fellow Lower One Only Sign Student World
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Both Face Fact Friendship Good Grow Keep Old Only Painful People Side Thing
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Daydreaming Look Love Pay People Think Trouble Want
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Angry Believe God Les Part Than Tolerant
From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beautiful Essence Unity Variety

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