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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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. ~
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~ The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ~
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~ To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life. ~
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~ Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction. ~
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~ Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all1 ~
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~ Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~
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~ The end of culture is right living. ~
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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. ~
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~ Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot,like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. ~
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~ Tolerance is another word for indifference. ~
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~ Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. ~
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~ Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. ~
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