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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides, The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to fact it.
| William 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.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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Perfection seems to be nothing more than a complete adaptation to the environment; but the environment is constantly changing, so perfection can never be more than transitory.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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