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 A little commonsense, a little tolerance, a little good
humour; and you don’t know how comfortable you can
make yourself on this planet.
| William Somerset Maugham | 
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. | William Somerset Maugham |
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good
habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. | William Somerset Maugham |
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. | William Somerset Maugham |
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. | William Somerset Maugham |
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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. | William Somerset Maugham |
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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. | William Somerset Maugham |
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. | William Somerset Maugham |
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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. | William Somerset Maugham |
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. | William Somerset Maugham |
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. | William Somerset Maugham |
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. | William Somerset Maugham |
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. | William Somerset Maugham |
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and
that the person that at the moment has the upper hand
will inevitably give place to another.
But which is the real one?
All of them or none ? | William Somerset Maugham |
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bru | William Somerset Maugham |
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