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W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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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.

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.



It is cruel to discover one΄s mediocrity only when it is too late.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one΄s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Life wouldn΄t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present.

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