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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ability Quote Serviceable Substitute Visit
The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Almighty Church Fool Harder Make Out
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young
Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Always Else Other Right Someone Sometimes Thank Think Unfortunately Unhappy
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
When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Ask Charitablity Disappoint Each Fellow Himself Less More Reconcile
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Know Novel Rule Three Unfortunately Write
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anything Conception Could Fuller How Life Make Much Offer See
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 most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Guarantee Learn Most Something Thing Truth Valuable
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Before Discover Earliest Into Nonsense Rub Time Wiser Young
There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Action Freedom Good Thing Thought Two
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anything Comfort Freedom Irony Lose Money More Nation Value Virtue

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