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Impropriety is the soul of wit.

W. Somerset Maugham

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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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Celebration Drink Envious House Idea Malicious Manner Predicament Six Social Unable
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
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Burly Hurly Make Many Matter Mistake Undergo Unhappiness Yourself
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
The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Belief Element Essential Eternity Love Own
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Achieve Constitution Dirty Love Paly Species Trick
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Children Concern Harm Life Make Mother
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
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
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Character Crete Incident Matter Pasion Sincerity Story Tell Write
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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Ask Criticism Only People Praise Want
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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Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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Always Difficult Mean More Say Thing
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
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.
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First Grow Inevitable Make Needful Older Place Recognize Selfishness Thing Tolerable World
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Distinction Mark Naturalness Simplicity Truest

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