Author

W. Somerset Maugham

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“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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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.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“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
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“Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.”— W. Somerset Maugham