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W. Somerset Maugham English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

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



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.

It΄s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.

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