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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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