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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

W. Somerset Maugham

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
I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
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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Always Beastly Behave Mine Must Same Sighted Want Well
Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Each Happen Know Love Men Other Women
I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Buy Cross Forward Life Like Look Mangled Pulp Smasher Sooner Street
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Beauty Ecstasy Simple Hunger
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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Can Epigram Make None Tell Truth
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
I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bring Life Lodging Make Man One Possible Rst Sleep Some Thing Willing
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Chance Continue Happy Love Person Same Year
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.
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Anything Ask Delight Foolish Last More Nothing Permanent World
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
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Cruel Hard Know None Whither World
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
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Impropriety Soul Wit

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