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

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.

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.



The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

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.

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